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“I wouldn’t be alive and talking had I not converted to Christianity,” Khon Khiam, one of the last surviving warriors of the bygone Naga head hunting era says in his calm re Cent demeanor during a converNagaland Job Government jobs don’t ing in Nagaland sation recently at his home at Job Openjust fall out of the sky, but hey,(1 post) Noklak village. 1. Cook keep at it! n 10+2 (1 post) 2. Hostel Warde In his twilight years with te dua Gra Or a declining memory, Khon (non-Local) 3. Receptionist in accounts (1 post) 12 pass good Khiam (short for Khiamniunaland Job Centre/ please call Nag gan) cannot remember his exFor more detail ce offi our into Wake land, ICICI Bank Mid act age. And he can only recall Dimapur-Opp. -Old NST Kohima r resume Please bring you patches of his life. With age catching up on AL him, Khon spends most of a PRinitIMiatiEveTUof GreTOenwoodRISchool An ission day inside the smoke fuming sh Course Adm Announcing Cra(Main + Advance 2014) ND For AIPMT / JEE earing + passed students kitchen hearth and guzzles T OF NAGALA MMERCE EN M RN for Class XII app VE GO h boys and RIES & CO ST U D Hostel for bot black tea. And he is happy to IN s: F ure O feat TE Special DIRECTORA GALAND: KOHIMAthFebuary 2014 ls Girls - Study materia answer a question or two, so NA 14 Dated Kohima, the 14 - Library facility lty ADV/35/20 - First rate facu Test NO.IND/EST/ long as he can connect the bits - Weekly MockRTISEMENT of VE t pos AD ur) ch up 4 (Fo Nagaland to fill ducted on 1st Mar and pieces of his life. inhabitants of ate of Industries & Commerce. h test will be con 70% and above will e ous anc igen form ind l per wit • A from Naga loca blishment of the Director any recognized university ents who secure hereby invited esta 2014 and stud discount. Applications are Assistant (District) under the duate from any discipline from “I never thought it imporage as er be given 50% fee on 3rd March 2014. gra of put be rs ll Com yea sha 35 n cum n ces atio LDA men more tha government qualific • Class com e The minimum 4 21 years and not 5 / 943509142 1. in computer application. ate should not be less than ed by existing policy of the stat tant to determine my age,” 548 442 897 ern diploma contact: m age of a candid limit will be gov the head For information 2. The minimurelaxation of the upper age duly signed by Sd/nts. on” Certificate .The Khon ponders for a while and / 9612973589 on 31.01.2014 physically Handicapped applica uired to furnish “No Objecti inot req Government as employees and Government employees are icy of the state remarks. Like any wise old 3. Serving name and official seal. shall be as pr the existing pol h the Dies wit to Trib ed ent rd ress artm kwa add of dep n of seats of bac the applicant and 4. Reservatio artment. duly signed by ents:man would utter, life, accordin plain paper R Dep fied by the P&A lications may be submitted ied by the following docum 5. The App & Commerce, and accompan mark sheet. ing to Khon, is not counted in ies with rector of Industr Cards of HSLC/P.U/Graduate • Admit ate petent Authority. tific years but in deeds. • Birth Cer ous Certificate issued by Com igen Ind ST/ office of For batch 20AGE14 INCOME •• ComputeratioCerntificCardate.of the employment exchange. But he is certain he has received in the iving be ll sha s tion rece applica date for LIFICATION • Registr sword photographs. 5000/- TO ily rejected. The uld 2: P.M. The last VACANCY QUA BELOW 26 RS. /- PER • 2 recent pas applications shall be summar office hours from 10:A.M to d date. The applications sho 10 TO crossed 100. Certain details 59 mplete YEARS 20500 TH ce, during received after the specifie summarily rejected. Inco OR mer TE 6. Com DUA & GRA ies be MON s shall be ch it will of Industr MALE / FEMALE VALENT the Directorate ll be 24-04-2014.No application of the applicant without whi EQUI still flood back. “I was around ress sha s Add tion and lica An unidentified appbishop a Naga headgear and a Naga shawl tact Number gave Pope Francis ietuoKire) tain details of Con Sd/-(Er.Thekrun ies & Commerce 17-18 years old when a team ustr on Wednesday’s audience in st Peter’s square at the Vatican. TAILS CONTACT con weekly general Ind DE of R ate FO ctor Dire CITIZEN UMBRELLA A Being aOFFIgood of British Administrators CER’S HILL KOHIMsport, the pope tried it on. (CNS Photo)

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Another blast in Kohima, 3 injured Morung Express News Dimapur | April 16

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Three persons were injured, one of them grievously, after a high intensity crude bomb exploded at NH 2 at Lerie colony around 9:45am Thursday morning. A motor garage mechanic, who was among the injured, was critically wounded after a shrapnel from the bomb hit his internal organ. The victim, aged around 20 years, and hailing from Manipur was working at a motor garage by the road side when the blast occurred. Among the other two who suffered minor injuries includes a driver to DFO Phek, who received injuries to his ear. SP Kohima, Joseph Hesso informed that the bomb was planted along the road side. The bomb went off right at the time the government vehicle belong to DFO Phek passed. The vehicle suffered some damage. This is the second blast which occurred at Lerie colony within a span of two days. On Wednesday, an explosion had taken place just 70 meters away from today’s blast site. No casualty was reported. Vehicles and houses were also partially damaged in the blast. The SP informed that no one has claimed responsibility over the blast. He also declined to divulge any details while maintaining that it is too early to come to any conclusion and it might hamper the investigation process. Following Thursday’s blast, security has been beefed up in Kohima town, the SP informed.

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But converting to Christianity was never that easy, Khon remembers with a chuckle. “I cannot recall exactly when, on one occasion, I converted and rejected Christianity merely because I did not want to quit drinking rice beer. Then I again reconverted in 1966.” Khon can recall the exact year and the name of the missionary who baptized him-one Imti from the Ao tribe. That was when Khon quit rice beer and head hunting for good. Khon was also one of the representing Tuenefmeefìpesve íelee !§!ê˛ˆÏçwarriors l SÈyï˛y sang district to participate (as CITIZEN UMBRELLA MANUFACTURER LTD. CITIZEN UMBRELLA MANUFACTURER LTD. a dance troupe) at the Naga147ñ Ù•ydy ày!¶˛ ˆÓ˚yí˛ñ ˆÜ˛y°Ü˛yï˛y ÈüÈ 700007 147, cenelecee ieebefOe jes[, JeÀueJeÀelee - 7 Ph. No. 033-2268-1396, 2271-2152 Ph. No. 033-2268-1396, land2271-2152 Statehood inauguration Fax : (033) 2271-2151 Fax : (033) 2271-2151 Khiam E-mail :Khon citizenkolkata@gmail.com E-mail : citizenkolkata@gmail.com in 1963 at Kohima. The troupe journeyed all passed Noklak while on their ing a reminder of his many way to Pangsha, a Naga village comrades who chose to fol- the way from Noklak to Tubordering Myanmar,” Khon low the head hunting path and ensang, Mokokchung and to recalls. This supposedly hap- died early, in the hands of en- Assam by foot. From Assam, they were taken on a train till pened in the early 30s. emies at bloody battles. Still looking lithe and able More memories come Dimapur. And finally to Kohiwith fascinating tattoos mark- flooding back. Khon was ma on motor transport. What ing his wrinkled torso; a re- one of the best warriors from was the fondest memory of minder of his tumultuous head his village with five enemies the journey? Khon is asked. hunting days, Khon may be one heads felled by his dao. That There is a hint of a smile. “I can still clearly remember the of the few head hunters alive. was back then. “I might have died ear“I remember I never scrumptious food we had in ly…I am happy I converted to walked behind, I was one who Assam.” Yes, there are certain memChristianity, it saved my life,” always led the way,” Khon says ories even age cannot erase. he mutters once again, evok- his status of being a warrior.

Naga issue is a collective responsibility: NSCN (R) NPF Noke withdraws Election Questions Cong leader Commission dispute case

DIMAPUR, APRIL 16 (MExN): The NSCN (Reformation) today said that the Naga political issue “belongs to the every Nagas, all of whom have contributed in his or her own ways.” A press note from the MIP of the NSCN (R) stated that if the Naga issue fails, “it is our collective failure and if it succeeds it is our collective success.” None of us, it asserted, should try to project oneself as more qualified on the Naga issue than the other, as this attitude is the real epidemic which has devoured the whole Naga people and its institution. The Naga Political Issue, it lamented, has faced many twists and turns. Some situations, it said were created by the Naga leaders on petty differences, some were “probably planted by adversaries to weaken us,” and some were brought by leaders who would always try to seize an opportunity in their personal interest. In response to senior Congress leader KV Pusa’s recent statement questioning the logic of signing a ceasefire between the NSCN (R) and the Government of In-

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dia, the NSCN (R) stated that “as a Naga we expect a positive approach and a constructive criticism in our struggle to reform and rebuild the Naga family rather than going around looking for a logic.” “You cannot be a Naga and an Indian at the same time. Which means you either criticise the Naga political movement as an Indian or you appreciate or criticise it as a Naga? Now since you have mentioned about not indulging in anti-national activities, we want to know which nationalities you are talking about; because we don’t consider fighting our adversaries the Indians or the Myanmarese as anti-national because, we were never an Indian or a Myanmarese at the first place,” said the NSCN (R). It further claimed that if the Congress leader “considers fighting the Indians and the Myanmarese as antinational it clearly points that, you have

Christians not anti national, asserts DCF to BJP President DIMAPUR, APRIL 16 (MExN): The Dimapur Christian Forum (DCF) has written an open letter to the BJP President, Amit Shah, expressing its concern over certain developments in the country with regard to the Christian community. The BJP President, it may be noted, is scheduled to visit the state on Friday, April 17. The DCF, in its letter stated, “We hear time and again accusations about Christians, about our accepting Christian faith, and more often about the ‘missionaries’.” While acknowledging that there have been no official accusations from the BJP, it however reminded that “the accusations have been from your constituents, viz. the RSS, VHP etc.” The DCF lamented that accusations of being “traitorous” and “anti national” have been levelled against Christians in India. The DCF further said that “our Churches do not use funds for antinational

activities. Funds for legitimate religious activities, recognized as such by the law of the land, are received by the Churches both from India as well as from foreign countries.” It requested the BJP in the centre to “study the foreign funding details of the Hindu and Christian religious organizations and publish the details for the good of the nation.” It also expressed concern that the occasions of Christmas and Good Friday are “being tampered with by the BJP Government.” “Lame excuses were made to justify the action, comparing the case of the US and India,” the DCF said. Stating that Christmas and Good Friday are national holidays and not religious holidays, the DCF asserted that “if we do not want to have religious festivals as national holidays, let us go ahead and do it. Development of all with the good will of all..... All include the Christians.” Full text on page 10

mentally accepted yourself as an Indian nationals though you may be a Naga in appearance.” The NSCN (R) added that the Nagas have never waged war against any country including India. “We had been only defending our sovereign right,” it stated, while recalling the thousands of lives have been lost in the struggle. The NSCN (R), it acknowledged may be a new name to many, however it pointed to “the battery of national workers, who rose on the call for national duty and gave the good days of their life for the Naga cause, some as long as 35 - 40 years.” “Where were you, when one of the longest armed conflict was going on and when so many Naga youths gave their lives? Where were you when, the National workers were imprisoned? Where were you when their homes were ransacked, killed and tortured by the Indians and the Myanmarese army equally?” the NSCN (R) questioned to the Congress leader.

Says reconciliation within NPF is underway

DIMAPUR, APRIL 16 (MExN): The Naga Peoples Front (NPF) led by Noke Wangnao has written to the Election Commission of India, withdrawing their case with regard to the dispute within the NPF party. In a letter dated April 16, the NPF Noke listed out various reasons for the party’s decision to withdraw the said case. It took into account the ECI’s order dated March 27 calling for the internal dispute of the NPF to be settled amicably within the framework of the Party Constitution which would pave the way for its harmonious function. NPF Noke further stated that mass based organisations, civil societies and tribe hohos had appealed to both the NPF groups to reconcile and amicably settle the differences in the interest of

the people of the State. The CEC of the party in its meeting held on March 31, 2015 had also unanimously adopted the resolution to work towards reconciliation and unity of the party in the greater interest of the party’s unity and the people of the state. It was informed that Noke Wangnao had written to Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu on April 1 to work for reconciliation and unity. NPF Noke revealed that Dr. Shurhozelie, in his reply on April 7 had welcomed the reconciliation. This was further acknowledged in another letter dated April 8 by Noke Wangnao and G Kaito Aye. NPF Noke claimed that the process of reconciliation and amicable settlement is well underway. Withdrawing the case, the party called upon the ECI to do the needful and that necessary formalities for withdrawal of the case may be communicated by the commission.

The Battle of Kohima was won in a ‘little corner’ of Jotsoma

Elders of Jotsoma village, Dr. Ngully and committee members.

Morung Express News Kohima | April 16

Six kilometers away from Kohima town is a place called Shohuza in Jotsoma where a monument was erected last year as a tribute to Major General John M. L Grover, his soldiers of the 2nd Division, 33 Corps of the British Army and the people of Jotsoma. It was in Shohuza that Gen. Grover and his troop camped, this was where all military tactics and decisions were made which led the allies to a historic victory against Japan in the Second

World War. Commemorating the first anniversary of the monument on April 16, Jotsoma reflected on the Second World War and its significance not just to the world but the people of Jotsoma. “The battle of Kohima was won in the little corner of Jotsoma village. This was the hollow ground. The actual decisions were all made here. This is a history and milestone of the Second World War. Even if others forget us, we will not forget history,” said Dr. P. Ngully, President, Kohima Edu-

cational Society (KES), while retrospecting on the WWII and its impact on Nagas. Acknowledging the people of Jotsoma for the efforts in keeping past memories alive, Dr. Ngully stated the one should stand for the truth and standing on the truth was the establishment of the tribute which has enabled the people of Jotsoma to build a bridge across UK. Kruorovi Peseyie, Chairman Monument Committee recalled the Second World War, as an eight year old when injured British soldiers were brought in the village. Even if they were injured, the soldiers will still manage a smile, mentioned Peseyie. “During the period the villagers were greatly inspired by the humble and loving attitude and good behavior of the British soldiers. As a matter of fact, the villagers too willingly extended every possible help to the soldiers.” It was this quality of love, care and respect which the British bestowed on the villagers which led them to support them in whatever possible way during the war as guides, porters, stretch bearers etc. A war is not won by the soldiers alone, it takes the support and backbone of people who work behind the scenes to help the sol-

diers, which actually brings victory, mentioned Krurovi, who added, “It is simply felt that the humble support, cooperation and losses of the local people are also somewhat deserved to be remembered while recollecting the great battle of Kohima during the WW II in 1944.” Soon enough after the WW II victory, General Grover was removed from commanding the Division. In November 1945, when the British soldiers returned home, Gen. Grover is said to have arrived to welcome them. It has been said that when he was spotted by the soldiers, they started demanding, “We want Grover…..We want Grover.” A hero was almost forgotten in his own land but remembered in a place called Shohuza where a monument standing 24 ft tall pays tribute to him as Krurovi Peseyie points out, “It is a joy to remember the one who has been forgotten by his own nation.” Homage was paid by Second Division British Army, Kohima Educational Society, Jotsoma Village Council (JVC), and Jotsoma Students’ Union (JSU). The program was followed by a release and screening of the inaugural event (DVD) at the village council hall.

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Dimapur DC, Kesonyu Yhome addresses the inauguration of IGNOU Study Centre at SD Jain Girl’s College, Dimapur on April 16. (Morung Photo) Morung Express News Dimapur | April 16

With a vision to bring distance education closer to the masses, Indira Gandhi Open University (IGNOU), the largest Open University in the world launched a study centre in Dimapur today. IGNOU has set up the Study Centre at S.D.Jain Girl’s College, Dimapur. The institution is well known for fostering higher education and learning towards women education in the State. During the inaugural function held at the College premises, Director of IGNOU Regional Centre, Dr.T.Iralu presented a brief introduction to IGNOU and the various programs on offer. Addressing the

students’ present at the function, he stated that the student enrolment since the inception of the Kohima Regional centre in 2000 has been increasing every year. He also stated that in 2015 alone, 1214 students have enrolled in various study programs. Dr.T.Iralu also informed that IGNOU has Study Centres in nine districts of Nagaland. “Phek and Wokha districts are yet to be covered, and we are hopeful that within this year we can cover all the districts,” he said. Kesonyu Yhome, Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur was the Chief Guest of the Inauguration Function. He conveyed a brief message which he stated was ‘close to his heart’ and wanted to share to the youth. The Deputy Commissioner of Dimapur stated, “In the literate modern society knowledge is a very important aspect of life. And in this day and age, I am of firm conviction that beyond education, we need very good, responsible human beings.” He further stated that all our education is of no use if they do not make us good human beings. “Education should make us more responsible, peace loving, and right thinking citizens of our society,” he stressed. The faculty, governing body, and Managing Committee members of SD Jain Girls’ College Dimapur also expressed immense satisfaction and termed the occasion a “great moment of achievement” in providing greater opportunity to students towards higher education.

ADC Planning demonstrates to the DC Mon Honje Konyak and others at the newly launched officers’ gymnasium at the Officers Club, Mon on April 15. (DIPR Photo)

mon, april 16 (Dipr): The Deputy Commissioner, Mon W. Honje Konyak has formally launched the officers’ gymnasium at the Officers Club, Mon on April 15. MLA & Chairman NKVIB, YM Yollow Konyak on November 19 2014 during the Third Inter Departmental tournament, formally inaugurated the gymnasium. In his short speech, DC Mon Honje lauded the formal DC Angau I Thou IAS for taking the initiative for development of the officers Club, Mon. He thanked the

SDO Civil SADAR, Mon Keyirangding, Principal ITI Alongse Sangtam, the Functional Manager Industries Chingang in particular and various departments and individuals who has contributed towards the development of Officers’ club. He called upon the officers to take full advantage of the facilities provided in the officers club, not only for their physical and mental development. He encouraged them to build strong and cordial relationship among the officers

posted in the district and get to mingle and interact with one another, promoting a sense of oneness and belonging of working together for the development of the district. He informed that with all the facilities provided Mon is no more a lonely place anymore as thought to be and urged upon the officers to avail the opportunity and at the same time to contribute and participate for the development of the district. While seeking cooperation and support of the officers Honje also appealed to come up with proposals, innovative ideas to improve the system of the most backward, and remote district of the state. The SDO Civil, Mon Keyirangding briefed on the facilities provided in the officers club. He also enumerated various departments and individuals who have contributed various items for the development of the GYM in particular and the officers club in general. The Gymnasium is well equipped with various facilities from mini home GYM to multi GYM facilities including leg rotate massager and complete neck and back massager.

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Advocate D Stephen K Yanthan, addressing students of ICFAI University on basic legal rights and duties in India. (Morung Photo) Morung Express News Dimapur | April 16

The Department of Political Science, ICFAI University Nagaland, on Thursday organised a “talk on basic legal rights and duties in India” at the university conference hall, Sovima. D Stephen K Yanthan, a senior advocate who had practiced law in the Supreme Court and other high courts in Delhi, and presently based in Dimapur was the resource person of the “talk.” The resource person dwelled on the impor-

tance of every citizen, particularly political science students, to know and be aware of their basic legal rights and duties. Starting with the basic steps on how to file a FIR in police station, Yanthan went on to elaborate on other legal and human rights. Earlier, head of department, Political Science ICFAI University Nagaland, L Achilo Kikon, in her keynote address said the talk was organized with a view to enlighten the political science students on various aspects of legal rights and duties.

Youthnet highlight their activities at Kohima DPDB

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Kohima, april 16 (Dipr): The monthly Kohima District Planning & Development Board meeting was held on April 15 at the DPDB Conference Hall, Kohima under the chairmanship of the Vice Chairman DPDB, Rovilatuo Mor IAS. At the outset, the chairman reviewed the last meeting minutes and ADC Planning, Ketoho Luho appraised the members on the action calendar of the Kohima DPDB and the Inter District Program. He also reminded the members to submit their APARs on time for further necessary action. Lezo Putsure from Youthnet

gave a presentation on the activities of their organization which was started nine years ago in 2006 comprising of young Naga professionals who work in close collaboration with the government as well as the private enterprises. Youthnet connects with Naga youths from all parts of the State, country and beyond and presently has 44,000 members on their Facebook page. the activities of Youthnet includes publication of YNOX, Nagaland’s only employment newspaper, the Nagaland Job Centres at Kohima and Dimapur, imparting professional skill trainings as well as

trainings on RTI, Youthnet young ambassadors, Young Leaders Connect, Young Nagas Give Back. Their latest campaign is Impact 5000 by 18 programme where they target to reach out to 5000 youths by 2018. The organization will also be launching a radio station soon in Kohima to reach out to more people in all aspects. ADC Kohima, Lithrongla Tongpi gave a short briefing on the ongoing National Electoral Rolls Purification and Authentication Programme (NERPAP). She gave an overview on the major objectives of NERPAP and various ac-

tivities undertaken during the programme. The ADC also mentioned on the linking of Aadhar Data with electoral database. District Welfare Officer, Kohima, Bino Newmai presented her departmental activities where she explained about the various schemes undertaken by the department including the Old Age Schemes, Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme, Indira Gandhi National Disabled Person's Pension Scheme, Scholarship to disabled students, Grant in aid to NGOs and Grant of loans to disabled persons.

Kohima Orphanage home turns 42

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Kohima, april 16 (mExn): The Kohima Orphanage and Destitute Home (KODH) , in a unique way observed its 42nd foundation day on Thursday at the KODH, five km from state capital. For the first time, the entire program was coordinated by the young inmates of KODH. Bible reading, Special solo and group songs and Bible recitation and sharing of testimony by former inmate Nzambemo was part of one-half hour program. Giving exhortation, CRMC Assistant pastor Votso thanked the management led by Neibanuo Children of KODH presenting a special song on the occasion of their 42nd foundation day. in taking care and nurtur- that God has given a life should led the path in Sharing a moving tesing the young boy and girls for meaningful purposed which God has given them timony, Nzambemo ,an of KODH. He also said and the children of KODH to live in. talented artist, who now

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runs a shop in High School Junction, Kohima and father of three children said that he was well taken care when landed in the KODH in 1995 and left the home in 2008. He also paid glowing tribute to late Mother Ama Zaputuo-ü Angami and Neibanuo for taking care of him during his stay at home and expressed deepest sorry for not able to come and meet and even attend lt. Ama funeral ,who passed away in 2011. Earlier the invocation was led by Pastor Er. Sabou, while several well wishers from all walks of life attended the 42nd foundation day. The KODH expressed sincere thanks and gratitude to all for helping the orphanage home.

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Rev. Bendang, Associate Pastor Kohima Ao Baptist Church pronounces dedicatory prayer for the ambulance Service of Impur Christian Hospital on April 16. The service will be made available for the public on hire basis.

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Bishop James Thoppil and Fr. Abraham with others during the dedication of Pope Francis Science Building at St. Joseph’s College, Jakhama held on April 7. The Science programme started at St. Joseph’s College in 2012, and since then, it has been slowly growing to become a large family, who now occupy a building of its own.

Adoption is an act of Love but the process comes from Law What is the right way to adopt?  Adopt only from a Government Recognised Specialized Adoption Agency  Register with any one of them  The Child Study and Physical Examination Reports are required to be signed by both adoptive parents  Pay for the adoption fee as prescribed under the Adoptive Guidelines and obtain the fee paid receipt. DO NOT  DO NOT adopt from Nursing Homes or Hospitals directly as it is illegal and render you liable to legal action  DO NOT adopt from un-recognized agency or unrelated persons. How can one adopt?  Prospective adoptive parents should register online. In CARINGS  Prospective adoptive parents should adopt only from Government recognized Specialized Adoption Agency (SAA)

n the morning of April 13th, 2015, our beloved Mr. Manato Zhimo (Balie Sachu) passed away to be with the Lord after brief illness. The family this opportunity to sincerely thank everyone far and near, who took time out from their busy lives to be with him in his need, and who stood by us through prayer and support both materially and physically. Special mention may be made of the following:1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

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Doctors and staffs of Oking Hospital Kohima. Shri. Chotisü Sazo, Speaker Govt. of Nagaland. Sumi Baptist Church Kohima, Blood donors. Xuivi Welfare Kohima, Baptist High, Kohima Satakha, Satoi welfare society Kohima. Department of LMCP Kohima, Nagaland. Union Baptist Church Chedama. Outreach prayer fellowship Kitsubozou Kitsubozou Sector 3 (Three), Well wishers, relatives and friends,

Born on 12-7-1969 Died on 13-4-2015

We regret our inability to mention the names of each and every one of you for your tremendous support, but we pray that our good Lord may bless you all for your love and concern shown to us and may He continually watch over you all in the days to come. Forever grateful, Mrs. Avita Mana & children and all family members.

Born not from our flesh, but born in our hearts, You were longed for and wanted and loved from the start.

Where can you Adopt?  Wondang-Ki Charitable Foundation, govergo Dimapur (SAA)  Mothers Hope Dimapur (SAA).  Radiant Educational Society Kohima (SAA)  Kohima Orphanage (SAA)

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SARA (State Adoption Resource Agency) - Is a state-level monitoring agency which has been set up to streamline and check illegal adoptions. It functions on the basis of the guidelines of the Central Adoption and Resource Agency (CARA). For more information contact us at: scpsnagaland@gmail.com, telefax no. 0370-2242979

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Portrait of anonymity: Rendezvous With Rebels Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty The Hindu

Rajeev Bhattacharjee’s “Rendezvous With Rebels” is a gripping tale of his nearly 800 km secret trek to the North East rebel camps in Myanmar to meet some of India’s most wanted men. Compared to Kashmir and its insurgency, the North East and its rebel movements are certainly low on the priority list of the Central Government. But, with about 30 armed rebel groups operating in a strategic region lined with international borders, the area can be termed one of South Asia’s hottest trouble spots. Therefore, “Rendezvous With Rebels”, Guwahati-based journalist Rajeev Bhattacharjee’s first person account of a nearly four-month long secret trek to some of the banned NE rebel camps in Myanmar’s eastern Nagaland is as much a compelling read of a travel memoir of a remote land as it is laying hands on a mine of information in short supply in Indian journalism. Rajeev, who walked on nearly 800 kms on a treacherous path, stayed in the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-Khaplang) camps and interviewed two of India’s most wanted men — Paresh Baruah and S.S. Khaplang. He also met I.K. Songbijit, president of the National Democratic Front

of Bodoland, at his camp. Rajeev, associated with the now-defunct English daily Seven Sisters then, was accompanied by Guwahatibased scribe Pradip Gogoi. He says though he had interacted — like some other journalists — with Baruah on the phone on some occasions to gather news on ULFA, the trip became possible after years of putting a request to him to meet face to face. “Before me, Baruah met only Swedish journalist Bertil Lintner for an interview,” points out Rajeev. Now, with ULFA splitting into two after its chairman Arabindo Rajkhowa came overground to talk peace with the Centre, and Baruah opposed to it, Rajeev’s interview with the chief sheds light on many things including Baruah’s dogged personality. “It is because of my principles that I have been able to stick to the organisation for 32 long years,” he told Rajeev. The interview in the book (Harper Collins) also highlights crucial information like, Baruah refusing any truck with Pakistan’s ISI because of its “unreasonable demands”; that till the time of the interview ULFA had no strategic understanding with the Maoistsasoftenalleged;thatbefore flushing them out of Bhutan on India’s behest, the King, “at a meeting with ULFA representatives in Thimpu in 2001, offered to give Rs. 200 crore to the outfit and assistance in transferring all the cadres to Myanmar” as he “felt that

Protesters block Kongba road over death of youth Our Correspondent Imphal | April 16

Traffic on Kongba road in Imphal East on Thursday was disrupted after locals of Singjamei Kshetri Leikai organised a dawn to dusk roadblock in protest against the death of a local youth. A large number of protestors squatted at different sections of the road preventing vehicles from plying. The protestors also threw burning tyres and wooden logs to obstruct traffic. RK Diamond from Singjamei Wangma Kshetri Leikai was found unconscious with head injuries in the courtyard of Hidangmayum Amujao of Khongman Zone-II in Imphal East on April 15 morning. He was rushed to hospital but succumbed on the way. A joint action committee (JAC) which is seeking justice in the case said that the youth had been murdered. A spokesperson of the committee demanded that the authorities bring all culprits to book by 3 pm today. Meanwhile, Irilbung Police have arrested three persons in connection with the death of Diamond. In another incident, an angry mob burned down the house of a man accused in a teen murder case at Nongpok Lourembam village in Thoubal district. The incident happened on April 14 after a miss-

ing teen named Thangjam Kelvin, 16, was found murdered in Ngarian hill of Thoubal district. The teen was reported missing since March 29 after Longjam Dhojo, 22, the accused in the case called him out from home. On hearing the news of murder of Kelvin, angry mob set the house of the accused to fire and then stormed the Nongpok Sekmai Police Station where the accused along with his family members have been lodging. A violent standoff was reported in the incident. The police used tear gas shells to disperse the mob, injuring two women. Kelvin was allegedly bludgeoned to death by Dhojo and another friend following a drunken brawl.

security of the southern districts bordering Assam would be jeopardised if these rebels were evicted by force.” With an India-friendly government in place in Bangladesh now, eastern Nagaland in Myanmar seems the main base of these ‘liberation’ groups, many parts of which are administered by NSCN (Khaplang) with virtually no presence of the Myanmar Government there. Seeing India getting friendly with Myanmar’s Junta, NSCN (K) entered into a formal ceasefire agreement with the Myanmarese army two months after Rajeev’s return. The book, through a wide canvas, helps the reader get a firm grasp on NE insurgency and its history, particularly of ULFA and NSCN. In an email interview, Rajeev quotes ULFA’s acting chairman Avijit Barman admitting “that it would not be possible for the outfit to militarily defeat the Indian armed forces.” He though adds, “Barman said that India would be preparing for a ‘limited war’ with China and, whenever that breaks out, it would be a ‘golden chance to kick India out of Assam’.” Excerpts: Why do you think Paresh Baruah agreed to meet you? You mention that arrival of arms and ammunition were timed with your visit. Baruah wanted to convey that he was still strong

ality. Do you think while the ground situation in Assam had changed over the years, the rebels have remained caught in a time warp? ULFA has faltered in strategy and this is apparent at every step of its history. No insurgent group can hope to survive for long without support and ULFA wasn’t too bothered about this. Baruah’s answers to my queries seem to suggest that he is not realistic. There is a dearth of You also mention him to be dedicated cadres in ULFA somewhatremovedfromre- unlike the Manipuri groups. and had the capability to rejuvenate ULFA and take on the Indian State with renewed vigour. I feel the weapons consignment was timed with our presence so that photographs could be taken and splashed in the media. This is important for survival, recruitment of cadres and gathering funds at a time when the chips are low for the outfit.

‘Commander’ responsible for MLA convoy ambush arrested AizAwl, April 16 (ENS): Mizoram Police on Thursday afternoon arrested army commander of the militant group Hmar People’s Convention Democratic, Lalropuia Famhoite, 47, and two others from Silchar town. Police informed that the trio

included HPCD finance secretary Norbar Sanate and a private. The Zosangbera faction of the HPCD, of which Famhoite is a senior leader, had claimed responsibility for the ambush of an MLAs’ convoy that killed three policemen late last

month and injured six others, including two civilians. The state government is moving towards declaring the HPCD an “unlawful” Organisation and some areas of Mizoram’s border with Manipur, where the militant group is active, a disturbed area.

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BSNL Nagaland is launching New Technology Landline services named NGN class 5 services at Signal Basti Exchange Dimapur and Kohima Satellite Exchange, Kohima on 21st April, 2015. All the existing services will continued to be provide like Call Forwarding unconditional, Call Transfer busy, Call Forwarding No reply, wake up, communication waiting, communication barring (Dynamic Lock), CLIP, Bell Check etc, Some additional services like Hotline, Abbreviated Dialing, Three party conference, PRBT ( caller tune ) will also be provided in New Platform. High speed internet Data services (VDSL) will also be provided from these new exchanges Customers of Signal Basti Exchange Dimapur and Kohima Satellite Exchange are required to contact at customer service center at Dimapur and Kohima respectively for any query related to new services. (i) 0370-2241919. (ii) 9436009724.

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Notice Where as an application has been submitted by Smti. biReSWARi GoGoi with a prayer for issue of succession certificate for drawel of entitled pension dues and any other outstanding dues from Govt of Nagaland on behalf of her husband deceased Late Shri. RAtNeSWAR GoGoi former SO.II PWD (R&B) NAGINIMORA under the establishment of E.E. PWD (R&B) NAGINIMORA DIVISION who expired, pension on 30:01:2015. Objection are hereby invited from any persons having objection or claims for drawel of the said dues by the applicant within 30 (thirty) days with effect from date of issue of this notification No. petition will be entertained after the expiry of the given period. Sd/Additional Deputy Commissioner Naginimora, Nagaland.

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The Naga Hoho congratulate Shri.t. R. Zeliang Chief Minister of Nagaland for launching IndiGo's first daily flight from Dimapur to Delhi via Kolkata on 15th April, 2015 at Dimapur Airport. The long cherished dreams of Nagaland has been fulfilled under the dynamite leadership of Shri. T. R. Zeliang. Now IndiGo would cater Seven days in week non-stop flight between Delhi to Dimapur Via Kolkata daily. It is a great achievement of Nagaland Government. Moreover, Naga Hoho also express its appreciation and happiness to Shri T. R. Zeliang Chief Minister and his Government for successfully introduction the Police Commissionerate system in Dimapur on the same day at Dimapur for the interest of Dimapurians. It is a great relief for the Dimapurians in particular and Nagaland in general Police Commissionerate system in Dimapur will definitely improve the maintaining of law and order in days to come. The noble deeds of the present State Government will be remembered by the people of Nagaland. (c. DAiPAo) GRAM: cooP.bANK

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against the ULFA. She was Baruah is unlikely to successful and all ULFA top come for talks unless the functionaries had to duck for Government agrees to discover and leave Europe. cuss Assam’s ‘sovereignty’ which is unlikely. I see the How do you see the situa- possibility of an accord tion now with one faction between the pro-talks facopting for peace talks with tion and the Centre which the Centre under Arabin- might seek to plug the da Rajkhowa and Baruah loopholes in the Assam He talked about Sanjoy still in the wild? Accord of 1985. Ghose’s murder affecting ULFA’s international reputation. Baruah told me there was no instruction to kill Sanjoy Ghosh. He was MOKOKCHUNG NAGALAND picked up on suspicion of being close to the Indian inWANteD telligence. He said the ULFA FAcultY MeMbeRS FoR leaders were at Geneva • eNGliSH when the controversy erupt• PoliticAl ScieNce ed in 1997. Their plan was to drum up international sup• SocioloGY port through meetings with • HiStoRY diplomats from 10 coun• ecoNoMicS tries. But Arundhati Ghosh, Applications are invited from interested candidates for Sanjoy’s aunt and a Foreign the above positions at Jubilee Memorial College, MokokService official, campaigned chung (a new College being set up by the Mokokchung Town Baptist Church). Qualifications: 1. Consistently good academic career 2. PG degree in the relevant subject from a recognized Through this Affidavit University vide Regd. No. 37/15 3. Preference for NET-qualified candidates dated 14/4/2015; I hereby declare that the 4. Good command of the English language names Akumnaro Alley Interested candidates are informed to send their bio-data/ and Akumnaro, resident career profile immediately to jubileememorialcollege@ of H/No. 20, Residency gmail.com. All correspondences and information shall be Colony, Dimapur, Naconveyed through email only. galand are one and the

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It’s doubtful how many would actually be willing to carry on the campaign in the jungles. All indigenous communities in Assam are now more concerned about protecting their identities rather than fighting for independence from India.

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No.eD/eSt/GR-iV/APPt/DiS-MbA/2011-12: Applications are invited for the post of Chowkidar at GMS Yimjenkimong, District Mokokchung. No of post – 1(one) terms & conditions: 1. Education Qualification: Highest class read maybe indicated (with supporting document). 2. Age limit: The candidates should not be less than 18 years or more than 35 years as on 30/04/1015 (with supporting document). 3. Should be native of the stated Village (with supporting document). 4. Land ownership certification should be attached. 5. The Application should be address to the Director, Directorate of School Education, Nagaland, Kohima - 797001. 6. The last date for receipt of applications shall be 28/04/15. 7. Submission of incomplete documents shall be summary rejected. 8. Interview will be conducted on the 30th of April 2015. Sd/(ZAVeYi NYeKHA) Director

The Management of the Bank is pleased to announce the participation of the bank in NACH (Credit) Platform under the NPCI, enabling the Direct Benefit Transfer of LPG Subsidy to its valued customers. All customers are advised to update their passbook with the 13 (Thirteen) digits Bank Account Number, IFS Code (UTIBOSNSCB1) for submission to the LPG distributors of their respective area. Customers are also advised to submit their Aadhar No., mobile number etc and get their KYC verified to avail the above facilities. Sd/Imtilemba Longkumer Managing Director

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More people worldwide are opening bank accounts Ken Sweet AP Business Writer

fricans using cellphones, older Chinese, and Indians getting a push from their government have fueled an unprecedented surge of people opening their first bank accounts. The number people with an account — either on mobile phones or at bank branches — jumped by 700 million between 2011 and 2014, the World Bank said Wednesday. The rise in new worldwide accounts has been driven by the spread of cellphones throughout areas like sub-Saharan Africa, where a bank could be miles away, and by strong economic growth in Asia. A bank or payment account is a gateway for people to integrate into modern society. Without an account, goods cannot be bought online, money has to be transferred physically, and savings cannot be stored safely. Remittances, where people send cash home to family, becomes expensive and time consuming.

“It’s the first step of getting into the world’s financial system,” says Asli Demirguc-Kunt, who directs research at the World Bank and co-authored its 2014 Global Findex Survey. “Basic financial services can help people save and lift themselves out of poverty and take control of their finances.” Now, 62 percent of the world’s adult population has some sort of bank or payment account compared with 51 percent in 2011. Mobile payment accounts are especially popular in Africa, where nearly 12 percent of the population has a mobile account compared with 2 percent worldwide, according to the World Bank. Overall account ownership in Africa rose from 24 percent in 2011 to 34 percent in 2014, largely driven by the wider use of devices. In Kenya, the number of people with bank or payment accounts has nearly doubled in three years, with almost all the growth coming from mobile accounts. Now, nearly 80 percent of the country’s 44 million people have access to basic financial services. Tanzania and Uganda also

saw a surge in accounts. More than half of farmers in the three African countries are using mobile accounts to sell their goods. In five African countries — Ivory Coast, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe — more adults have mobile money accounts than traditional bank accounts. In India, account ownership has risen by 18 percentage points in three years to 53 percent. A big part of that increase is due to an Indian government program that aims to get every household to open an account. The World Bank estimates that the program spurred 125 million new accounts in four months. Chinese account ownership also rose sharply to 79 percent in 2014 from 64 percent in 2011, with most of the growth coming from people living in rural areas as well as from older adults. Other key takeaways on worldwide bank accounts:

A jump in developing world acWomen lag men counts The World Bank says 58 perIn the developing world, accent of women have an account, count ownership rose by 13 perup from 47 percent in 2011, while centage points between 2011

Nagaland witnessing growing demand on business statistics Need to contrive mecha- Business Register. He statnism to bring out robust ed that Business Register District Business Register is a comprehensive list of Establishment/entities enM o k o k c h u n g , gaged in economic activity, April 16 (Dipr): Dis- which are registered under trict Statistical Officer, certain legislative Acts enMokokchung, convened forced in the State. Co-ordination meeting on Stressing on the growDistrict Business Register. ing demand for better and Officers from the Director- more detailed business staate of Economics & Statis- tistics in the State and the tics, Kohima, Assistant La- importance of Business regbour Commissioner, ACRS ister, he apprised the particand Officials from the DIC ipating departments that and MMC, Mokokchung Economics & Statistics, Deattended the meeting. partment conducts several Addressing the meeting, follow-up surveys on the Charles N. Kikon, AD & Pro- basis of the list of establishgramme Officer illustrated ment in the Business Regthe importance of District ister. This provides reliable and quality data required for the compilation and estimation of State Domestic Income (SDP) and District Domestic Income (DDP). Dear bro LUMTSA, Therefore, the registerAs you celebrate your ing Departments along with birthday today we wish you the District Statistical Office a very happy birthday and should contrive a mechapray that God will prolong nism to bring out a robust His blessing upon you and District Business Register. will guide you in every ways Holivi Chophi, Statistiof your life. And may you do cal Officer, elucidated the good as you are always. procedure of compiling With lot of love from and collecting information Longdi & Avi from the establishment. Ap-

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praising the meet she stated that the Establishment profiles are captured including their identification/location along with the nature of economic activities that an establishment is engaged in. She further, cited that only those establishments which are registered under a Legislated Act are covered under Business Register. These Acts are The Company’s Acts, Society Registration Act, Factory’s Act, Nagaland Shops and Commercials Act, Co-operative Society Act, KVIC, DIC and those under Municipal Council/Town Council on the strength of Trade permits issued by them. Several issues pertaining to arriving at a reliable District Business Register were discussed at length with active participation for the enforcing Department. The meeting was chaired by Aotemsu, DSO, Mokokchung. He appealed to the Department present in the meeting to give necessary cooperation to Economics & Statistics Department so as to get a reliable and authentic District Business Register.

new Delhi, April 16 (pTi): Bank account penetration in India increased from 35% to 53% between 2011 and 2014, but the country also suffers from high dormancy rates, says a World Bank report. Translated into absolute numbers, this growth in number of bank accounts means that 175 mn in India became account holders between 2011 and 2014. According to the World Bank, the rise in number of bank accounts was to a large extent due to government’s push for financial inclusion. In August 2014 the Indian government launched Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana scheme for comprehensive financial inclusion with the goal of opening a bank account for every household. “By the end of January 2015 it had led to the opening of 125 mn new bank accounts; as a point of comparison, a 2013 survey had found that fewer than 400 mn people in the country had an account,” the report said. Under the scheme more than 97% of the accounts were opened with the public banks, but around 72% of these accounts show ‘zero balances’. The World Bank report also noted that dormancy rate in India is quite high at 43% and accounts for about 195 mn of the 460 mn adults with a dormant account around the world. In sharp contrast, in high in-

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Number of ‘unbanked’ drops In 2011, the number of adults without bank accounts totaled 2.5 billion worldwide. Now it’s 2 billion, a 20 percent fall. The survey The World Bank and Gallup surveyed nearly 150,000 people in 143 countries and territories. The survey period varied from country to country, with some interviews done as early as February 2014 and some as late as December 2014, using both phone and in-face interviews. The margin for error varied by country, and was as low as 2.2 percent in China to as high as 5.2 percent in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. This is the second time the World Bank has done this survey. The original Global Findex survey was published in 2012, using 2011 data.

come OECD economies the dormancy rate is as low as 5%. Moreover, only 39% of all account holders in India own a debit or ATM card, and using an account might be inconvenient and time-consuming if every transaction requires using a bank teller. In India not only account penetration is comparatively low, at 53%, but so is the use of accounts for payments - mere 15% of adults reported using an account to make or receive payments. In Brazil and China about 40% of adults reported using an account to make or receive payments. Meanwhile, most of the world’s unbanked are in China, India and Indonesia. The country is home to 21% of the world’s unbanked adults and about two-thirds of South Asia’s. China accounts for 12% and Indonesia 6%. According to the report, globally, from 2011 and 2014, 700 mn people became account holders at banks, other financial institutions, or mobile money service providers, and the number of ‘unbanked’ individuals dropped 20% to 2 bn adults. Studies show that broader access to, and participation in, the financial system can boost job creation, increase investments in education, and directly help poor people manage risk and absorb financial shocks.

In India not only account penetration is comparatively low, at 53%, but so is the use of accounts for payments - mere 15% of adults reported using an account to make or receive payments.

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and 2014. However, it still lags the developed world significantly. In the developed world, 94 percent of adults have a bank or payment account compared to 54 percent in the developing world.

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65 percent of men have a bank account, up from 54 percent in 2011. That 7 percentage point gap between the genders is consistent with the last World Bank survey, in 2011. Account ownership among women is particularly low in the Middle East, where women are half as likely to have an account. However, the gap between women and men decreased when the World Bank only considered wage-earning women. “As women’s participation in the labor force rises, that will be one way to close the gap between women and men,” says Leora Klapper, lead economist and co-author of the Global Findex report. Female account ownership is important because it can provide a separate, safe place for women to store savings and allows them to make their own spending decisions, Klapper says.

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Brief Revised rate of vegetables in Mkg Mokokchung, April 16 (Dipr): Additional Deputy Commissioner & Administrator, Mokokchung Municipal Council, Bendanglila has issued notice on revised rate of vegetables in Mokokchung Town with immediate effect as follows: 1. Potato Rs. 12/- per kg 2. Tomato Rs. 20/- per kg 3. Green chilly Rs. 40/- per kg 4. Cauliflower Rs. 30/- per kg 5. Cabbage Rs. 12/- per kg 6. Long Beans Rs. 50/- per kg 7. Cucumber Rs. 30/- per kg 8. Carrot Rs. 30/- per kg 9. Patal Rs. 50/- per kg 10. Ladies Finger Rs. 50/- per kg

RBI Guv receives threatening e-mail MuMbAi, April 16 (pTi): Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Raghuram Rajan has received a threatening e-mail following which his security has been stepped up, a top Home department official said here today. “The said letter was received a few days back. We have taken note of it and the RBI Governor’s security has been beefed up,” Maharashtra’s Additional Chief Secretary (Home) K P Bakshi told PTI here. However, he did not elaborate on the contents of the threatening e-mail. After the e-mail was received, the RBI officials alerted the police crime branch. The cyber crime investigation cell of police is looking into the matter and trying to trace the origin of the e-mail. Police probe ‘contract’ to kill RBI governor Security was tightened for RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan following a death threat purportedly from the Islamic State (IS) terror group, an official said on Thursday. The threat, received via an e-mail on Rajan’s official ID, came around three weeks ago after which the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) informed the Mumbai Police crime branch. Rajan is out of India, but police are taking no chance and security was tightened at the iconic RBI headquarters here. Efforts are on by the Cyber Cell to track down the e-mail’s origin and its credibility. The sender claimed that he had been given a contract to eliminate Rajan, but was open to negotiations on the issue. This has both perplexed police officers and also made them wonder about the genuineness of the threat.

‘El Nino risks rising in India this year’ new Delhi, April 16 (pTi): The El Nino risks for this year is rising in India and it could result in sub-par rains, hurting rural demand and food inflation in the country, says a report. According to the Japanese brokerage firm Nomura, the possibility of El Nino conditions is developing this year and this could possibly push food inflation temporarily higher. El Nino conditions often, although not always, result in below-normal rains and hence suggest risk of sub-par rainfall during the monsoon season (JuneSeptember). The Australian Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology’s Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) dropped to -11.2 in March from 0.6 in February. A sustained SOI reading below -8 indicates El Nino conditions. The bureau has raised the possibility of El Nino conditions developing this year to “at least 70 per cent” from 50% earlier, Nomura said. India’s agriculture economy is already reeling under the pressure of consecutive bad kharif (summer) and rabi (winter) seasons. “A third consecutive bad agricultural season could severely impact rural incomes, force the government to announce higher Minimum Support Prices and possibly push food inflation temporarily higher,” Nomura India Chief Economist Sonal Varma said in a research note. DIMAPUR Civil Hospital:

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acharya bats for ‘employability’ of educational system at Nec meeting Kohima, april 16 (mExN): The Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya had said that the educational system must ensure that people come out from it with “what economy needs and what the employer needs.” He was highlighting the issues of higher education in India which he argued faces challenges in terms of four Es -expansion, equity, excellence and employability at the recently concluded two-day 64th Meeting of North East Council (NEC) from April 9-10 at New Delhi. Acharya, who also holds the additional charge of Assam and Tripura, further maintained the fourth E – employability- is not been addressed enough while excellence in education also needs to be improved. “Our Universities should start continuous interaction with trade, industry & commerce of our areas and address the availability of nature given raw materials/wealth to create more wealth to make use of them by introducing supplementary courses taking

Governor inaugurates new School at Tuli Tuli, april 16 (Dipr): Governor of Nagaland PB Acharya inaugurated Rajeshwari Karuna School, Wati Yongpang area of Tuli on April 16. In his speech, the governor said that education was one of the important tools to forge ahead in every sphere of life. Director Community Educational Centre Society, Subonenba Longkumer, while speaking about the School said that the purpose of this project was to impart education of ‘urban amenity in rural areas.’ This project was intended to bring children in rural areas at par with the urban children by providing infrastrucinto account the law of supply and demand, the governor opined. In order to face the challenges, he also maintained that regional education institute in NER should established and upgraded to impart quality education, besides enhancing skill or vocational institutes for the unemployed youth of the region. The present curriculum must be supplemented with some purposeful skill to the youth and implement credit framework for skills and

KPC general meeting on April 18 Kohima, april 16 (mExN): A general body meeting of the Kohima Press Club (KPC) will convene on April 18, 11 am at the conference hall of KPC, Kohima. Important agendas pertaining to the welfare of the press club will be discussed at the meeting, and general review and approval of the final draft of the amended constitution of the KPC will also be made. Following the meeting, press club membership drive (new and renewal) will commence. A press note issued by Alice Yhoshü, General Secretary, KPC has requested all the members of KPC to attend the meeting compulsorily. Members are also asked to treat this press release as official invitation.

KVSU career guidance prog Kohima, april 16 (mExN): The Kohima Village Students Union will be organising a career guidance programme with the theme “Future Under Construction” on April 18 from 10 AM at Kohima village council hall, Kohima village. A KVSU press note informed that the programme is being organized for students of standards 10 and 12 and all bona fide KVSU members in the category are requested to attend the programme. The resource person will be Pheluopfelie Kesiezie and Dr Ketshukietuo Dziivichii will be the resources persons, who will be speaking on the topic ‘Career opportunities specific to Nagaland’ and ‘Prospects of Higher Education in Nagaland’ respectively.

NNP+ elects new Team Dimapur, april 16 (mExN): Network of Naga People Living with HIV and AIDS (NNP+) held its 13th Annual General Meeting cum election at DUDA Guest House Kohima on April 14. According to a press note form NNP+ joint secretary, Aching, the house elected new team of governing board headed by Lanu Aier, Mongtsoa and Naomi Semy as president, general secretary and Treasurer respectively besides other four Executive Board members for the tenure 2015-18.

tural, educational support, nutrients food, psycho-social care and health hygiene. The project also sought to change the mindset of the rural students to have broader view in life. The programme highlights included short speech by Lt. Gen. M.S. Metha Rtd. CEO Hans foundation New Delhi; Editor Tir Yimyim K. Temjen Jamir; VCC Wamaken, I Wati Jamir; and DEO Mokokchung, Alemla. A cultural dance was also presented by Dongshingmongnyei from Anaki Phom village while National Anthem was rendered by Rajeshgwari Karuna School.

choice based credit system in Universities and Colleges, he added. He also urged the educational Institutions, specially the Universities, to adopt villages and get the statistics of basic amenities etc in remote, backward and underdeveloped areas. Besides, along with Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs), it should provide various amenities to them under the Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives, he said.

Meanwhile, the governor also raised concerns about huge the Non-Lapsable accumulated funds of the NEC (at nearly Rs. 12,000 crore) and said the NEC should “work-out” strategy to utilise it most appropriately for development of NE. The present NEC strategy of sanctioning about Rs.100 crore per year per State which is too inadequate, he noted adding that the focus should mainly be on infrastructure, electricity and education.

‘Long felt need’ fulfilled: DCCI on Police Commissionerate system Dimapur, april 16 (mExN): Maintaining that the introduction of Police Commissionerate system in Dimapur has fulfilled the “long felt need of the people”, the DCCI has heartily welcomed and assured its full support and cooperation. “Dimapur being the commercial hub has also given rise to becoming the hub of crimes of various natures, the Commissionerate system comes as a huge relief to the business community who are faced with routine untold burden of extortion, kidnapping, murder, illegal taxation activities etc,” the Dimapur Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) stated in a press issued by its president, Hokivi Chishi The DCCI particularly lauded the move to create new police outposts at Marwaripatti, New Market, Lengrijan, Khermahal and Purana Bazaar as these areas are among the main market areas and would provide a sense of security to the businessmen. “It is also felt necessary that new police outposts be created towards Dillai Gate or Sub Jail junction and Nagarjan Power House as

these are the routes where miscreants from neighbouring states get easy entry and exit,” the DCCI further noted. Past instances have shown that business community have been soft target and when businessmen are burdened with illegal taxation, they have no way to recover and it becomes a burden to the consumers. In this connection, it conveyed its optimism that with the new system, there would be quicker police response, higher quality of investigations and higher sensitivity in redressing public grievances and many other criminal activities. “The business community of Dimapur is highly optimistic that the new system would be able to fulfill the expectations of the people and provide a safer and peaceful environment for all to live in." Peaceful business atmosphere leads to undisturbed developmental activities, DCCI added. The business body further requested all other NGOs and civil societies to extend their cooperation to the new Policing system and enable it to operate it in conducive atmosphere and make meaningful progress. Lauding the state gov-

Central BJP leaders have concern for Nagas

hatever critics or political opponents may say, it is a fact that central BJP leaders have shown concern for the Naga people. The BJP-led NDA has come to power two times in the Centre. When BJP first came to power, the then Prime Minister of BJP-led NDA, Atal Behari, personally visited Nagaland in 2003 and bailed out the state from financial crisis by giving huge financial package.

Again when BJP came to power for the second time in 2014, Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, also visited Nagaland and graced the Hornbill Festival last year. During his visit, Modi also assured employment to thousands of educated unemployed youths of North East Region including Nagaland. Now the proposed visit of BJP national president, Amit Shah, to Nagaland and other NE states is also an in-

dication of the concern of BJP leaders for the NE Region. I am sure our BJP national president will also give a patient hearing to the problems faced by Nagas. With the good governance displayed by the present BJP government in the Centre, the popularity of the party has also surged in recent times in the NE Region too. I am very hopeful that the Nagaland State BJP will do very well in the 2018

state assembly elections. The State party has now retired bureaucrats and police officers (IAS and IPS) and former directors of various departments who are well versed in all aspects of development. With the State BJP growing from strength to strength every day, chances of the party forming the next government in the state is also very high.

sifting the leadership paradigm. It is no wonder that the moribund condition of the BJP Party status in our State is because the State top brass Leader enjoys pulling the strings only to his comfort and strictly marginalized others. Such anachronistic and inflexible Leader cannot confluence forth to one direction those broken pieces and stray groups. Our priority stand contextual to the nascent Party status in or state as of now is more of singularity- “party growth” and others are positively

anticipated to be followed. The discord is within the state much to the fact that pro rata attitude is deprived to many BJP stalwarts by the state president thus; it would be a big regret if the Party High Command at the centre could not bring an amicable verdict in our state at the earliest. Therefore, it is our sincere appeal to the Party’s National President to take necessary action in this regard through reorientation in the President BJP State Unit post and revoke those

ernment effort, the DCCI particularly conveyed its appreciation to Chief Minister, TR Zeliang and Home Minister, Y Patton for taking “active initiative in introducing the new system.”

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Three bike lifters arrested in Kohima Kohima, april 16 (mExN): The Kohima police have arrested three people on April 15 for their alleged on involvement in stealing of bikes on regular basis. A stolen motorcycle was also recovered from them. According to a press note from Sub-Divisional Police Officer & PRO, Kohima, after receiving information that some miscreants had tried to steal a motorcycle from P.R Hill Kohima, the Kohima South P.S duty personnel swung into action and apprehended 2 suspects. They were identified as Vilazo Roland Chiesotsu (24yrs) of ‘L’ Khel Kohima Village and a presently residing Wallford Colony Dimapur; and Yanchanthung Ezung (20yrs) from Longsa Village, and presently re-

siding in Naga Hospital Colony, Kohima. It was later ascertained, on interrogation, that they were the people who had tried to a motorcycle from the area. The police also recovered a stolen motorcycle (B/R No. NL-01E/3746,Chassis No. MD2A14AZ0CPD75417) and some implements tools such as hacksaw blade, key, locks etc apparently used to for their activities from their possession.

Meanwhile, after thorough interrogation by the Anti-Vehicle Theft Squad of Kohima Police, another co-accused Jordan Kemp (23yrs) of Phensünyu Village, and a resident of Lower Bayavü Colony, Kohima was arrested from High school junction. A regular case is registered against them at South Police Station, Kohima and the police are conducting further investigation.

Dr. Kire ‘blasts’ Kohima serial blast Kohima, april 16 (mExN): The Minister, Forest, Environment and Wildlife, Dr. Neikiesalie Nicky Kire has vehemently condemned the two consecutive bomb blast at Lerie Colony, Kohima on April 15 and 16. The blasts had caused some injuries and damaging a Government Vehicle. “No person or organization shall be allowed to succeed in their devious goals by creating fear psychosis and holding the people to ransom” stated Dr. Kire in a press note adding that, “It will remain an exercise in futility.” The minister promptly

reached the blast site and also visited the injured admitted in the hospital and wished them speedy recovery, the press note informed. He summoned the DC and SP Kohima to take stock of the situation and called upon the police to take all necessary measures to speedily identify the culprits and put an end to such senseless acts. The minister also appealed the public to remain calm and vigilant, and report any suspicious activities to the authorities.

tee condemns the serial bomb blast at Kohima on April 15 and 16 by anti-social elements, It creates fear psychosis, endangered the life of public, lost of properties and dispruts the peaceful atmosphere, the KDCC maintained in a press note issued by its president, Prasielie Pienyu and general secretary, Notsol Neikha. Appealing all the right thinking citizens to condemned the cowardly act and the ‘ineffectiveness of the state government, the KDCC urged the law agencies to leave no stone unKDCC: The Kohima turned to arrest the culprit District Congress Commit- (s) at the earliest.

Public SPace GPRN/NSCN clarifies on Apna Hotel Building issue

he Naga political struggle is a people’s struggle to defend their distinct history, land and people. This truth cannot be given away out of fear or favor. A case of property dispute between first and second wives of Late B.S Sharma, namely Mrs. Basanti Devi Sharma and Mrs. Limasanla Ao, over Plot no. 301, Patta No. 195 at Nyamo Lotha Road, was forwarded to the GPRN/NSCN by the Naga Council Dimapur on 23/08/14. The office of the Ato Kilonser constituted a six member Special Committee to settle the dispute. There were four hearings in four months. Each party was granted opportunity to present their case and produce all relevant documents. The said plot was registered in the name of Limasanla Ao, daughter of Sakulemba Ao, resident of Duncan Basti. She was the second wife Late B.S Sharma who died in 1988. There

were other properties in Delhi, Diphu and Bongaigon belonging to Late B.S Sharma. As per the documents, on 14/08/93, the Dimapur Longpha Senso Telongjem invited the parties of first and second wives and settled that the three properties outside Nagaland be granted to first wife Mrs Basanti Devi Sharma and children while the property at Dimapur was granted to Mrs. Limasanla and her two sons. In March, 1999, Mrs Limasanla, the second wife and her sons leased out a portion of the building to Rithika Sharma, the daughter of first wife, at a monthly rent of Rs. 10,000/- to run a restaurant called APNA HOTEL. In 2013, Mrs. Limasanla and her son decided to sell the property to Mrs. Mano Peseyie. Accordingly, Dimapur D.C, through local dailies granted one month’s time for objection to the proposal. After the

expiry of the deadline, on 30/05/13, Mrs Limasanla sold the plot and building to Mrs. Mano Peseyie wife of Tekrube Peseyie, who automatically transferred the property in their name without any hindrance. This deal was later objected to by Mrs. Basanti Devi Sharma on the ground that it was a joint property. The Special Committee notes that despite the non co-operative and malicious attitude of Mrs. Basanti Devi Sharma’s children who exhibited provocative character reckless antiNaga stance all along. It did not deter the members from delivering justice to both the parties in true spirit. The judgement order was placed before the parties and accepted by both, Mrs. Basanti Devi Sharma and Mrs Limasanla Ao. Despite Mrs. Limasanla being the sole owner of the property, having every right to sell the property to any party, On humanitarian

ground, she was ordered to pay Mrs. Basanti Devi Sharma a sum of Rs. 75,00,000/in addition to earlier assistance of Rs. 10,00,000/- and Rs. 5,00,000/- made to late Deepak Sharma and Suraj Sharma both sons of Mrs. Basanti Devi Sharma. The Amount was handed over to Mrs. Basanti Devi Sharma and her son Suraj Sharma on 5th Feb. 2015. She signed the receipt note in front of her son and relatives and GPRN members, declaring neither she nor her children shall lay claim to a plot no. 301, patta no. 195, at Nyamo Lotha Road Dimapur. The purchaser of the property, Mrs. Mano Peseyie is the sole legal owner of the property. The Judgment order of the Special Committee, GPRN/NSCN, entrenched Naga customary law in the land of the Nagas without distorting the ideals of justice. Ajeto Chophy Kilonser & Convener, Special Committee Through MIP, GPRN/NSCN

Peace for Chang-Yimchungrü dispute Thepfulhouvi Solo

ll Nagas expressed a sigh of Relief at the Resolution the Changs and the Yimchungrüs arrived at in the Tripartite Meeting with the Commissioner Nagaland on April 8 at Kohima, for the settleHotongse Sangtam ment of the long standing Active member, BJP Nagaland. Land dispute at "Yakur and Chendang Village Areas. They made 5 Resolutions but practically all the Issues are covered in 2 Ideas. They are: been suspended or ex1. There will be Regular pelled under present Presi- Communication between dent BJP State Unit from the CKS and YTC. State BJP Party Front. 2. The Government will K. H. Keyho initiate Modalities for SetGen. Secy BJP Phek tlement of the Land DisMuzipra Lohe pute within 30 days. President BJP 18 AC Phek A landmark decision Yephuzu Swuro has been reached; that President BJP 19 AC Phek is that, the Parties have Bilhunyi Nyekha President Kissan Morcha agreed to meet face to face 19AC Phek across the Table and find Thupuveyi out a solution to the long Vice President standing land dispute. BJP Phek Unit. This decision to meet Zapose-o Shijoh face to face across the TaPresident Minority BJP Phek ble is the Key to the solu-

BJP Phek unit welcomes Amit Shah

he dissident BJP Phek Unit heartily welcome Amit Shah, President BJP National, in our state and call once again his ardent attention, pertaining to the pending issue reverberating since around November 2014. The sorry state of matter perpetrated by the President BJP State Unit in the party formations toPhek District as well as in the whole of Nagaland State need peer analysis and dig off the loopholes for the Best of the Party Welfare through

“The developmental gaps of NER which have been an issue for a long time should be tackled and addressed along appropriate strategies and policies.” There is an urgent need to reorient the strategy and policy for NER according to the Region’s endowment, he said. In this context, he maintained that NER, which has more than 5000 kms of international border, has an imperative to put a productive strategy into place to reap gains from International Trade. Further highlighting Swachh Bharat Mission initiatives, Acharya said the mission will go a long way to boost tourism, health improvement and contribute immensely to the development of the State. Finally, the governor suggested constitution of an independent empowered Committee by DoNER with representation from NE states and other parts of the country, so that the cultural festival by NEC or DoNER could be organised in a “holistic manner.”

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tion of the Dispute. It is a very difficult decision, and that this has been possible in the heat of the Trouble is a mark of the magnanimity in Nagas. The Nagas hunt Heads but they can also decide Head hunting Cases. It is a precious character of the Nagas that they like candid solution after which there is no acrimony. The Naga usually has an amiable side in his character and they like others favor straightforward magnanimous dealing. It is necessary that Nagas do not lose this mark of candidness in their nature. The Chang-Yimchungrü Meeting decided they would have "Regular Joint Meeting". It is not mentioned: i. who will Convene the "Regular Joint Meeting" and ii. who will Co-Ordinate the "Joint verification Team" . These are however Issues that can easily be sorted out.

It is in the Interest of the Solution that a non-Chang and non-Yimchungrü Deputy Commissioner Tuensang functions as the CoCoordinator of the Regular Joint Meeting; similarly a Superintendent of Police may be the Convener of the Joint verification Team. The 30 days time given to the Government for working out the modalities for the Solution of the Land dispute in Question is too short. A long standing age old Case cannot be solved in just 30 days. The Government may have to appoint a Reputable Commission headed preferably by a Retired Supreme Court Justice assisted by the Commissioner Nagaland. The preparation of the Government Modalities Commission, if constituted, will itself take some 30 days at the earliest. They must have time to go into all the details of the history of the Land and the Dispute. The Commissioner would have to attend to his

normal day to day numerous duties also. Therefore, the time of 30 days given may have to be extended to at least some 14 to 18 months if not 24 Months in the next Regular Joint Meeting (RJM). One thing is very clear and that is that the Government will never have any intension to take a partisan Stand. The Parties need never fear the Government would take one side. My view is that the Government will not decide on the terms of the Changs nor on the terms of the Yimchungrüs, I hope the Government will make a brave decision for a lasting solution without fear or favor: i. on the basis Give and Take, ii. on the basis of the Ground Realities. Every dispute must have an attitude of Give & Take for the solution. It is the Prayer of all Nagas that the Changs and the Yimchungrüs prove equal to the occasion.

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have toyed with the idea of changing career in midlife. I am nowhere near it mentally and have no particular area of work in mind. But I am happy that I have started working on a hobby that I have been thinking of for many years. It is the art of making bonsai. Circa 2003, I went for a plant exhibition in Imphal where I was mesmerized by miniature trees planted in pots. The trees were familiar except that they looked old and small. I didn’t know they are called bonsai. As life continued in a hostel, then in the nation’s capital city, I had no opportunity to try my hand at making bonsai. But after life stabilized here in Kohima, I am happy that I can pursue this hobby at last. I have read the theory, watched the videos, and have acquired the tools including the indispensable concave cutter through online shopping. Life can be full of tensions. It can become monotonous. It can become dull. Sometimes, you need to get away. Sometimes, you need to unwind. Sometimes, you need to refresh. So, whatever your life’s main work is, you need the meaningful pursuit of a hobby. Plants work for me. I have kept indoor plants in my hostel room. I remember keeping a small container where I planted about 10 varieties. One was a Gul Mohor tree which goes to sleep every night, and a creeper which went round the container several times. There was also a bean plant which I measured with a scale every day for growth. Trip to the jungle is a perfect getaway for me. Writing is another hobby which also becomes a grinding responsibility, depending on the circumstance. Neither movies nor music work that well for me. Find out what works for you and pursue it. Many people are caught in the wrong job. There are doctors who should have been musicians, government officers who should have been church ministers, and so on. Some are driven by want of power, fame, or wealth, while some are forced by circumstances. While one should be sympathetic to those who are forced to work for survival, it is a challenge that we dare to give up our job and pursue what we should be doing instead. If you are sure that you are in the wrong place, motivation, health and productivity will go down. Is it your hobby which should have been your life’s profession? While hobbies can turn into primary profession, keeping a hobby as a hobby is worth pursuing and developing. Cultivating a hobby is good for mental health. It has the capacity to keep you young, creative and active, and not give up on life just yet. Hobbies like bonsai making and trekking are also very good for physical health. To promote physical activity in order to control weight and chronic diseases, starting a kitchen garden is encouraged. In urban places, vertical gardens are possible. The added advantage is that kitchen garden produces healthy organic food. Hobby can save money and can be a source of supplementary income. Those who are interested in DIY (Do-ityourself ) crafts can re-use household items and save money. It is wise to use what you love to do to earn some extra bucks. I could manage some extra amount for charity and also pocket money from writing. One day, who knows if I will leave my job for the pursuit of a hobby! Planting flowers may fetch a good amount during wedding season. Options are many: making cakes for birthday parties, carpentry, stamp or vintage coin collection, event management, etc, etc. If each of us meaningfully pursues a hobby, chances are that we can bring healing to some of our society’s discontentment.

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Mazie Nakhro, Ph.D

Moral Problem Versus Individual Rights What does God say? Read 1 Corinthians 10:23-31 Drunkenness is always presented in the Bible as bad and shameful and therefore crossing the line of propriety (Gen. 9:20-21; Prov. 20:1; 21:17; 23:20-21). The habit is condemned, because it can lead to many evils and self-induced impairment (Rom. 13:13; 1 Cor. 5:11; Titus 1:7). But wine itself is not inherently evil. It is meant to be a good thing (Amos 9:14; Zech. 9:17; Mic. 6:15). There is no condemnation of its use as medicine (1 Tim. 5:23), as anti-depressant (Prov. 31:6-7), as painkiller (Luke 10:34), or as refreshment (2 Sam. 16:2; John 2:9-10). We must admit that nowhere does the Bible say that a person sins the moment he tastes wine. Only once in the entire Bible do we find drunkenness specifically prohibited with the force of a command. And that is in Ephesians 5:18, where it says, “Do not get drunk with wine, which will ruin your life.” The phrase “Do not get drunk” (from mèmethúskesthe in Greek) is in present passive imperative and should be translated “Do not keep getting drunk.” Thus, the habit is prohibited, but not necessarily the taste of wine. The American Experiment In 1919, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union influenced the government to pass the Eighteenth Amendment, calling for Prohibition of Liquor. This Amendment made it illegal to produce or sell alcoholic beverages in the United States. But the law failed miserably as gangsters started manufacturing and supplying all kinds of liquor in the black market and the government was unable to effectively control it as it turned into an underground business. Consequently, the Congress had to repeal the Prohibition Law in 1933. Okay, so now what? Biblically speaking, total liquor prohibition should not be made even a problem issue in the church, let alone making it an issue in the civil society. However, drunkenness is clearly forbidden in the Bible and as such the Church would do well to influence the government to enact public drunkenness as illegal and thus make it a civil crime punishable by law. What to eat or drink is a subject of individual right. It becomes a moral issue only in its abuse and when it adversely affects others. So again I would repeat this: the Church may exert influence upon the State to enact any moral law into a civil law through proper democratic processes. But under no circumstances should the Church take up the “sword” of the State or apply coercion on the civil society. Let us remember these distinctions to avoid confusion. Taken from the book “Breakfast with the King: The 100-Day Devotional” by Mazie Nakhro

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oday after 20 years in the industry, it is a privilege to be doing my last fashion show by choice and yet still be working in other facets of the business. I am grateful that at 14, I was given the opportunity to start this journey." Gisele Bundchen, Brazilian supermodel on retiring from the runway after 20 years in the industry

f all the great films about American politics, one that has stood the test of time is a 1972 classic about the triumph of symbolism over substance called The Candidate. Starring Robert Redford, it tells the story of an inexperienced son of a beloved political leader who is pulled into politics on the strength of his family name. Turning the general election into a popularity contest, Redford's character encourages the media to play up the father/ son angle, delivers a series of pleasant but empty speeches, and ultimately wins election to the United States Senate. In the film's iconic closing scene, as screaming fans chase him on the way to his victory speech, the Senator-elect dodges the crowd, pulls his political consultant into a room and asks blankly, "What do we do now?" Here in the nascent democracy of Myanmar, it is hard not to think of that film when considering the latest chapter in the political career of Aung San Suu Kyi. The daughter of this nation's slain founding father, Suu Kyi was awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for her opposition to Myanmar's military junta, which kept her under house arrest for 15 of 21 years after winning and then being denied the presidency in 1990. Gaining a seat in parliament in 2012, in just the second election since this nation re-opened itself to the world; Suu Kyi has been heralded by many as Myanmar's great hope, described as the "one politician who could play the role (here) that Nelson Mandela played in South Africa." That is not how the script has played out so far. Instead, like Redford in The Candidate, Suu Kyi's pursuit of the political spotlight has been relentless -- but her use of that spotlight to advocate for something other than herself has been absent. The result, a long-time Suu Kyi supporter tells me, is that "many of the people who love her have been disheartened by her." A former aide agrees, adding that "people once thought she was super-human, but many have changed their minds." For the first time, the global media is beginning to tell the same story -- suggesting recently that Suu Kyi is a "tarnished saint;" that her "halo" has been "dented;" that her reputation as "The Iron Orchid ... seems to have wilted;" that her leadership has fallen "short of expectations;" and even that her revered father, the assassinated General Aung San, "would be horrified" by the positions taken by his daughter. But there is one influential audience that still sees Aung San Sui Kyi as largely infallible: Western leaders. British Prime Minister David Cameron has called himself one of her "greatest admirers." Europe, as a well-known European ambassador tells me, "looks at the country on a daily basis and only sees The Lady," as Suu Kyi is known here, adding, "If The Lady calls (German Chancellor) Angela Merkel and says 'go left' or 'go right,' she will." Above all, the new Republican leadership in the United States Congress is "completely in love with her," says a leading Western official. The head of that fan club is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who not only counts himself as The Lady's foremost advocate in Washington, but has a framed letter from her on his office wall and a wife who is rumored to be personal friends with Suu Kyi. It has locals here asking a pointed question: if the upcoming general election, due in November, doesn't end with Suu Kyi as President, will the West see the election as legitimate -- or will it be the trigger for new sanctions to be imposed

he Nobel Peace Prize is about to bow out to critics. As of Jan. 1, the Oslo-based Norwegian Nobel Committee that selects the winners has a new secretary, Olav Njølstad, who announced that “changes loom” in a recent interview. However, Njølstad added, the changes “will not be dramatic”, making it unlikely that they will satisfy the full makeover demanded by The Nobel Peace Prize Watch, a newly-formed advocacy group wishing to reverse and undo international militarism. In a letter sent in February to the Nobel Prize awarders, the group pointed to the purpose Alfred Nobel actually had in mind and presented a selection of candidates among the 276 nominated for the 2015 prize who are actually qualified to win. The Nobel Prize awarders have promised to respond to the letter, which, along with the valid candidates, is posted on the group´s website. The group has chosen to ignore the wishes of the Nobel Committee that has a policy of strict secrecy around candidates and the selection process. By publishing, for the first time, the full nominations of the 25 “valid candidates”, the group has made it possible for everyone to see what types of peace work Nobel actually intended the prize to promote and its “imperative urgency” in the current period. For over one hundred years, the secrecy rule has shielded the awarders from being held responsible for its neglect of the true Nobel “champions of peace” and they have been able to get away with assertions that the winners Nobel had in mind no longer exist. According to the group this is untrue. It says that the committee ignores the simple, indisputable – and nev-

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks to journalists during a press conference at a parliament building on April 9, 2015 in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

on the people of Myanmar? Put another way: if Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), follows through on the threat it made this month to boycott the election if the militarydrafted Constitution doesn't change, will that invalidate all of the progress this nation has made the past four years in the eyes of the West? Drafted by junta leaders in 2008 in a process that deliberately excluded the NLD, and approved in a national referendum riddled with voting irregularities, Myanmar's constitution forbids anybody with a foreign spouse or children from becoming President. Since The Lady's late husband was British, as are their two sons, there is little doubt that the provision was drafted exclusively to prevent Suu Kyi from becoming president. David Cameron has promised to lobby military leaders to have the provision overturned. U.S. President Barack Obama, in a visit here last November, said the law "doesn't make much sense." Yet Shwe Mann, the formidable speaker of Myanmar's parliament, has repeatedly asserted that such a change would require a national referendum and insists it would be impractical to hold such a referendum until May of 2016. And since it takes a 75 percent plus one vote of Parliament to call for such a referendum - at a time

when unelected soldiers, by law, hold 25 percent of parliamentary seats - the odds are long. It has left Suu Kyi with an inescapable paradox: if she doesn't personally and publicly lobby for the constitution to change before the election, then nobody else will, since "people are not ready to go to the barricades for her," as a respected Burmese venture capitalist said to me. But if she repeatedly lobbies (as she has) for the constitution to change merely to allow her to run for president, she risks looking like she only cares about herself - which is exactly what's happening. As a long-time ambassador from the Middle East puts it, her continual petitioning has led many to think, "She is self-centered and likes to lecture. She likes to play the role of being a symbol." Of course, it might be a different story if Suu Kyi better balanced her constant attacks on the political authorities for a change that would benefit her with a much more rigorous use of her Nobelenhanced moral authority for change that would benefit others. But as all those negative headlines indicate, that has not happened. Summing up the essential problem, journalist Jane Perlez observed of the criticism last November that Suu Kyi "has hesitated to take on many of her country's biggest issues ... and has failed those who expected a staunch human right advocate." Since joining parliament, Suu Kyi has rarely spoken out against the government's ongoing violence against rebels in northern Kachin State -- part of a festering, 70-year war between Myanmar's military and its 135 ethnic minority groups. Her complete silence on atrocities being committed against more than one million Rohingya Muslims - who are being herded into squalid camps by the Buddhist majority in western Rakhine state -- has drawn outrage from human rights advocates. Yet, when Human Rights Watch came to Myanmar in January, she said she was too busy to meet with them. Last month, she even threatened legal action against an NLD member for supporting student protests against a controversial proposal to decentralize the education system, leading one publication to ask if she "turned her back on Burma's student protesters." In one high-profile case where protesters were attacked by police for protesting a copper mine, Suu Kyi sided with elites and company officials. She has yet to raise her voice on a constitutional issue that will likely dominate discussion in 2016, which is the movement toward a federalist system of government that solidifies a cease-fire agreement signed this month between the government and 16 armed ethnic groups and grants minorities some degree of autonomy -- without which Myanmar will never be a real country. The disappointment felt by many former supporters was summed up by lawmaker U Thein Nyunt, who told a journalist last year, "We've followed her leadership for two decades, but she's failed to get any results for her country. It is obvious now that she is not considering the people, but only her own power." Like The Candidate, The Lady still uses the image of her father as often as possible. But maybe, deep in her heart, she believes that she'll never be in a position to make real change until she's President. Maybe being hailed as her nation's savior is more pressure than she, or many of us, could live up to. Or maybe the substance of Aung San Suu Kyi never really matched the symbol -- and the West would do well to see that Myanmar is much more than The Lady.

Moment of Truth for the Nobel Peace Prize Fredrik S. Heffermehl and Tomas Magnusson Inter Press Service er disputed – evidence showing that when he designated his prize to the “champions of peace”, Nobel “meant the movement and the persons who work for a demilitarised world, for law to replace power in international politics, and for all nations to commit to cooperating on the elimination of all weapons instead of competing for military superiority.” To make the prize comply with its actual purpose will require a dramatic change of the award policy. The Nobel Peace Prize Watch therefore doubts that the impending changes, described as “undramatic”, will be sufficient to satisfy the legislation on wills and foundations and the decisions of two public agencies in Sweden tasked with overseeing that foundations spend their funds in accordance with the law. Even if the nominations are secret, The Nobel Peace Prize Watch was able to identify 24 names properly nominated for the 2015 prize. The list of valid candidates for 2015 is dominated by Americans and by people involved is nuclear disarmament, with nominees like Japanese hibakusha (nuclear survivors) Samiteru Taniguchi and Set-

suko Thurlow; U.S. lawyer Peter Weiss and the International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms (IALANA), David Krieger and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Further candidates are David Swanson, the U.S. activist for full disarmament; whistleblowers Kathryn Bolkovac, Daniel Ellsberg, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, all from the United States; veteran organisers of a law-based world order, such as lawyers Benjamin Ferencz and Richard Falk, also from the United States; and the Womens´ International League for Peace and Freedom, formed during the First World War. It seems as if Norwegian politicians, imbued in Western militarism and loyalty to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), are unable to understand Nobel´s idea of peace: to liberate the nations of the world from weapons, warriors and war. The idea to be supported by his will was that all nations must cooperate on disarmament. Laureates like U.S. President Barack Obama in 2009 and the European Union in 2012 both believe in military means and clearly are not the type of winners to

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whom Nobel dedicated his award. If the world succeeded in realising the Nobel peace plan, this would release enormous funds to cater to human needs. It would cost only a tiny fraction of the world´s military expenditure to secure everyone access to food, clean water, housing, education, health care. It would become possible to secure decent circumstances for all people, all over the globe, poor and rich, East and West, North and South – and make them more secure in the bargain. To a realist it must be obvious that a world filled with weapons and warriors, even nuclear weapons, is inherently an unsafe world. In the letter requesting changes, The Nobel Peace Prize Watch refers to basic rules of law regarding wills and foundations and furthermore invokes decisions passed by two Swedish public agencies during the last few years. The authorities expect the purpose of the Nobel testament to be respected and also that the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm will keep its Norwegian sub-committee for the peace prize under strict and effective supervision and also refrain from paying the prize amount to a winner outside the purpose Nobel actually had in mind. The Norwegian Nobel Committee, elected by the Parliament of Norway, now has until Apr. 17 to decide whether it will serve the great mandate that Nobel entrusted to it, to illuminate and promote the vision of preventing future war by what Nobel in his will called “creating the brotherhood of nations”. Governments and citizens all over the world should unite in demanding that Norwegian parliamentarians respect Nobel and help liberate us all from the very dangerous common enemy called militarism.

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NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE

On Government and Corruption

e often find ourselves engaging in discussions about government and corruption whether in private or public spheres. From scholars to working professionals to ordinary villagers, when we gather after a day’s work, these themes crop up ineveryday conversations. The “system” of corruption is a widespread practice at all levels enabling it to be discussed and decried. However, rather than only a field of blind condemnation, it appears imperative to also understand these themes through our traditional, colonial and post-colonial historical experiences.We mustlook at how our history shaped our understanding of the state. There is a need for deeper understanding of present day corruptpractices by tracing and situating them in our traditional ethos, as informed by a tradition of a moral economy. Moral economy is defined in terms of how economic activities are influenced, structured and legitimized by moral values and norms. For instance, in the Naga context, the village rich and leaders were morally expected to provide and help the village poor. Charles Chasie points out that, “By tradition, Nagas envied the rich, not hated them. Everyone wanted to be rich, so that they could feed others and earn the regard of their people.” This traditional ethos has transformed itself in a different form in the present context where the rich and powerful can justify and legitimize some of their corrupt practices as a way to serve their own people.A ‘big shot’ of one’s community who fails to help a close relative or fellow villager to get a government job or perhaps a development contract is criticized for not fulfilling his social and kinship obligations. On the other hand, we condemn others who do the same as ‘corrupt”. This is reflected in our former Chief Minister Hokishe Sema’s memoirs on the pre-state qualities expected of village rulers: “These [village] rulers have some personal distinction acquired by them through their performances of sacrifices and good judgments. They also have a great economic power and their capacity to help the poor and the needy in the village is greatly appreciated. They provide food, shelter, and clothing for the needy in an emergency. It is a great shame for the rulers if their subjects go to other villages for food. It is the duty of these rulers to ensure the security and welfare of their subjects.” This moral duty of the leader goes beyond mere personal accumulation or economic wealth but is guided by traditional ethos where a rich (leader) person is seen as a provider. While this historical trajectory may not justify present-day nepotism, or rechanneling funds to clan and village relatives, it neverthe-

Subject Matters Zhoto Tunyi

less posits such practices in a wider historical context. There is another perspective on corruption which is closely linked with the coming of the post colonial state. Our first introduction with the post-colonial state was a tragic one, marred by conflicts and violence. Atrocities meted to the local populace during the political conflict by the state apparatus created a sense of alienation. Thesehistorical experiences are ingrained in our collective mind, perhaps leading one to look at the government as an “Outsider” Our past imaginings of the state based on historical/colonial/post colonial experiences is symbolically constructed in public culture. Therefore, a sense of belonging and accountability is often found missing, eventhough we are now availing the benefits and opportunities of the state. It is looked upon as an agency and a source where one can draw maximum benefits. The few educated elites were the first beneficiaries of the state government. They were able to establish themselves and avail the opportunities provided by the state in terms of employment and contracts. But for the remaining many, encountering and engaging with the government is fairly recent.

In the post-colonial time, with the coming of the state government, we have our first hand encounter with power and money. At the top of the hierarchy we call the “government” is our politicians. Corruption in the state starts at the top political level and politicians today are driven by a one-point agendato stay in power or capture it at all cost. The vast expenditures on elections are obtained through questionable means and sources. The next level is the bureaucracy. Charles Chasie asked, “Why is the bureaucracy so attractive to Nagas?” He pointed at how we have come to experience firsthand the essence of a bureaucrat in the form of the British bureaucrats, who epitomized true power and came to symbolize the pinnacle of any ambition, or achievement that one could visualize and project for oneself. A bureaucrat’s position is valued in terms of the social status and it’s political, executive and judicial roles adding to one’s power position, economic wealth and job security. These multiple factors linking government and corruption makes it a complex issue, though it is much discussed and deliberated in our public space. The agenda on governance and

development has often been misplaced as central funds meant for development and to help the poor are being misused, with the cuts and taxes of the Naga Political groups (NPGs). Our long drawn political conflict is often made a scapegoat for the non-performance of the government. Thus, not only retarding economic development, they also provide legitimacy for the perpetuation of underdevelopment in the state. The state government, politicians, and bureaucrats seeks legitimacy of their inactivity in the name of political problem and also try to reap the political benefits out of the Naga political issue thus development takes a back seat. Therefore, taking in consideration all these points, rather than isolating factors associated with corruption by attempting to form fixed causal connections and answers, we should instead recognize that issue of corruption is too varied and open to be reduced to formulaic ‘if.., then..’ assumptions or conditional statements. The discourse on corruption is multi-faceted, suggesting the presence of multiple causes and factors. Our understanding on corruption might be conditioned by the overall political and economic environment, taking the position that these covert and overt practices of corruptions are reactions against the existing politicoeconomic system wherein either long sense of deprivation, or inequality or competition or any of their combinationacting as a catalyst. At the same time, as the above arguments suggest, it might be driven and rooted by local nuances of traditional ethos along with our tragic historical experiences with the coming of the post colonial state. Our basic understanding of corruption is “violation of norms and standard of conduct.” When we discuss corruption, its other face “accountability” comes up. Anthropologist Michael Herzfeld poignantly says “accountability is a socially produced culturally saturated amalgam of ideas about person, presence and polity… [whose] meaning is culturally specific [and whose] management of personal or collective identity cannot break free of social experience.” Therefore, when there is lack of accountability, justification and legitimizationof corruption practices thrive. The idea of the government as an outside force with no accountability has seeped in our public conscious crippling our societyfor so long, and until and unless we develop a sense of commitment and accountability towards the idea of state, corruption might be unlikely to abate. Zhoto Tunyi, is a Ph.D Scholar in the Department of Political Science, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong. His current research is on civil society, conflict resolution and identity politics in Nagaland. E-mail- zhototunyi@gmail.com.

‘Subject Matters’ is a weekly column featuring Naga academicians and Naga Scholars on issues concerning the Naga Society. This Column seeks to stimulate minds and encourage fresh perspectives and thinking on issues that are crucial for the progress of the Naga Society.

f you ask South Africans of my generation to name the most important political event of their lives, many will cite the assassination of Chris Hani. Mr. Hani was revered for his bravery in fighting against the apartheid government and for his internal dissent within the liberation movement. In 1990, after Nelson Mandela was released from prison, Mr. Hani questioned the decision to suspend the armed struggle in favor of a negotiated political settlement. He worried that the men who had upheld a racist system for decades could not be trusted to simply hand over power. Mr. Hani was gunned down in the driveway of his home in front of his 10-year-old daughter on April 10, 1993. White supremacists Clive Derby Lewis and Janus Waluz admitted to killing him. Their intention was to destabilize the country’s transition to democracy — and they very nearly succeeded. For a week after Mr. Hani’s death there were outbreaks of violence. Nine days after the killing, a huge crowd gathered at Johannesburg’s largest stadium. Angry and worried about the threat of unrest, Mr. Mandela closed his eulogy by pleading for calm: “When we leave here, let us do so with the pride and dignity of our nation. Let us not be provoked.” He reserved his final words for Mr. Hani himself, saying, “You lived in my home, and I loved you like the true son you were.” It is difficult to overstate Mr. Hani’s importance to black South Africans. Having escaped three previous assassination attempts he was legendary long before his murder. His death lies in the middle of a tumultuous but ultimately triumphant era in South Africa’s political history; it occurred roughly halfway between the brutal murder of the black consciousness leader, Steve Biko, in 1977 and the quiet passing of Mr. Mandela in 2013. This symbolism is not lost on those of us who continue to mourn his passing at this

The End of the Rainbow Nation Myth Sisonke Msimang iHT time every year. Mr. Hani has come to occupy a place in the imagination of black South Africans that is virtually unrivaled. Whereas Mr. Biko was an iconoclast who smashed the idols of white supremacy, he was only 31 when he was murdered. He didn’t live long enough to fulfill his enormous potential. Mr. Mandela lived to 95, long enough to both achieve his political objectives and to transcend politics. Mr. Hani, however, was 51 when he was assassinated. If Mr. Biko died too soon and Mr. Mandela had ample time, many believe Chris Hani was cut down just as he was ready to lead. The men found guilty of Mr. Hani’s murder have never expressed remorse for their actions, and haven’t been forthcoming about crucial aspects of the crime, fueling suspicions that they were part of a wider conspiracy. As a consequence, Mr. Hani’s family has not forgiven the killers and is unlikely to do so. His widow, Limpho Hani, remains bitterly angry. She fought their T.R.C. amnesty application and in recent years has opposed each medical parole application lodged by the 79-year-old Mr. Derby Lewis. Her rage against both men and their refusal to even pretend to be sorry stands in stark contrast to the banal script of reconciliation and forgiveness that has dominated South Africa’s political landscape for the last 20 years. Those of us who are tired of the empty politics of reconciliation — which as-

sumes that whites have paid for their sins and blacks have forgiven them — find some succor in knowing that Mr. Derby Lewis will likely die in jail. In the early 1990s, peace and reconciliation were preached with an almost religious fervor. In 1995, one of Mr. Mandela’s first acts was to establish the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in order to formalize the forgiveness process. Very few people were jailed, and hundreds applied for amnesty on the basis that their actions had been politically motivated. Today, many black South Africans see the T.R.C. as a disappointment. Although the commissioners — led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu — envisioned a process in which telling the truth would lead to forgiveness, this rarely happened. Too few (mainly white) perpetrators told the truth, and too many (mainly black) victims were encouraged to forgive them anyway. To make matters worse, when the T.R.C. reached the end of its five-year mandate, many whites saw this as the end of a historical chapter that did not need to be revisited. Moving forward hasn’t been so easy for blacks. The structural effects of apartheid are still evident in the layout of our cities, in our schools and universities and in our workplaces. Even those born after 1994 deal with interpersonal and institutional racism on a daily basis. This is not the case for most young white South Africans. They continue to enjoy better access to employment, ed-

ucation and health facilities. Yet on university campuses, and on social media, young whites often espouse the view that talking about race and racism keeps society locked in the past. Some even go so far as to suggest that talking about racism is itself racist. This attitude has pernicious effects. In a survey released by the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, only half of white youth surveyed agreed with the statement, “apartheid was a crime against humanity,” as the United Nations defined it in 1966. But what name then do we give to a crime that allows the next generation of one population to deny the injustices it has done to children of another? I believe that Mr. Hani would have eventually ruled South Africa as president if he had lived. I like to think that he would have defied his mentor, Mr. Mandela, by offering us a less conciliatory path to dignity. Mr. Hani may be gone. However, a new generation has embraced his brand of restlessness. Like Mr. Hani, we are cynical and distrustful of those who hold power — irrespective of race. The only politicians we admire are dead. We have lived with choreographed unity for long enough to know that we now prefer acrimonious and robust disharmony. We see reconciliation as part of a narrative that was constructed on the basis of anxieties that are no longer relevant: Democracy has taught us that raised voices don’t have to lead to war. This may not feel good, or even comfortable. And it does not offer the peace many black South Africans imagined 20 years ago. Nonetheless our impatience for justice is a new kind of hope; a sign that green shoots may yet emerge from the ruins of the rainbow nation. Sisonke Msimang is a columnist for the South African website The Daily Maverick and the former executive director of the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa.

Survivors of SKorean ferry tragedy struggle with guilt Youkyung Lee

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ield Trip" is still written in big letters on a calendar hanging on Yang Jeong-won's old classroom wall. The letters cover four days in April last year and mark one of the highlights of the year — a trip, by ferry, to a southern resort island. The sight still manages to shock Yang, one of the few students to survive a disaster that continues to horrify South Korea. For many of the second-year high school students, the trip marked a last bit of freedom before nearly two years of grueling preparation for college entrance exams. Teachers and other students waved at them from school windows as 17-year-old Yang and her classmates boarded buses at Danwon High School in the city of Ansan, about an hour's drive south of Seoul. Girls sang along to loud music and took selfies as they drove to the port of Incheon. Once heavy fog cleared, the Sewol, a 6,852-ton ferry, set off with 476 people on board, including 325 students and 14 teachers from Danwon. That night, Yang and her classmates threw a surprise birthday party for a beloved teacher, Kim Chowon, who turned 26 on the ship. A few minutes before midnight, the students lured Kim to a cabin and greeted her with a birthday cake, a happy birthday song and a picture. Several hours later, on the morning of April 16, 2014, the ferry listed, flipped upside down and sank. More than 300 people died, many of them students trapped in cabins because the crew ordered them to stay put, even as the captain and others jumped onto an early coast guard boat. As the ship listed, Yang smashed into a wall. Students screamed and called their parents, cabinets falling onto them. Yang, who had on a life jacket, managed to get to an exit and called out to rescuers, who saved her. Out of 35 people in the birthday photo, she was one of only eight who lived. The teacher, Kim, didn't make it. A year later, Yang still can't believe what happened to her friends. She's now in her final year of high school, studying design and animation, part of a senior class that shrank from 338 to just 88 students. "I sometimes wonder if some of the other students are still in the classroom, but no, this is all we have now," she said. Yang, a freckled, short-haired girl, takes medicine for anxiety. The feeling of the tilting ship still traumatizes her, and when she was on the 11th floor of a hospital last year, she felt like the building was leaning to one side. She grabbed her younger brother's hand and ran down the steps to the first floor. "If I had known this would happen I would have tried to be better friends with more kids," she said during a two-hour interview with The Associated Press. She feels guilty about surviving. "I came out of this alive, but my friends didn't," she said. "I once dreamed that relatives of those who died came to kill the survivors." Jang Dong-won, the father of another student who was rescued, said that surviving students are still traumatized by memories of their friends during the last minutes of the sinking ship. "One child missed a friend's hands as the person was swept away by waves," Jang said. "That last glance by the student who couldn't move as a vending machine fell on them." They also are made to feel guilty by those around them. "If they smile even just a little bit, they hear, 'How can you smile?'" when most of their friends were killed, he said. The ferry sinking also has dramatically changed the lives of siblings of victims. After Choi Yun-ah, 24, lost her 17-year-old sister, Yun-min, in the sinking, she quit her office job. She then reached out to other siblings of ferry victims from Danwon. Siblings, she says, often have no one else to turn to because they are afraid of putting more of a burden on their grieving parents. "Siblings are victims too, but no one in the world knows about it," Choi said. She has made art out of messages from 51 siblings to their dead sisters and brothers. She has also overcome her previous reticence and become more vocal about the sinking. "Kids died because they were asked to stay still," Choi said. "If I stay obedient and listen to what grown-ups tell me to do, it will damage me, so I now speak my mind." After Park Bona's 17-year-old brother died in the ferry, Park stopped caring about the things most other 20-something South Koreans are obsessed with. "After I lost Seong-ho, working at a big company, graduating from college, making a lot of money — it all became meaningless to me," Park said as she sat in a makeshift church near a memorial altar for the victims. "What does it even mean to get married in a country that can't even protect my brother?" Park, a 21-year-old who was majoring in Korean language and literature in college, is now preparing to transfer to another university. She wants to help society remember the dead teenagers and to make the country a safer place. Yang, meanwhile, is still wrestling with why friends who could have been saved had to die. She feels angry at the ferry operator. The ship became top-heavy after a redesign added more cargo space. She blames the government for not regulating ferry operators more carefully. Yang is also enraged by the ship's crew, who escaped when students were trapped because they were told to wait inside. The 15 crew members have received prison sentences ranging from five to 36 years on counts including negligence and abandoning passengers. "They should be punished as heavily as possible," she said. "It would be very hard for me to forgive them."

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India's push to ban beef a blow to the poor Nirmala George

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very morning just before dawn, hundreds of trucks loaded with buffaloes trundle into New Delhi's sprawling slaughterhouse complex where young men rush to unload the bellowing cargo. Skidding on heaps of fresh dung, they pull the animals out of the trucks, herding them for the daily auction and eventual slaughter. The work is hard and the money at the end of it, poor. But the business is big. Despite Hindu beliefs that cows are sacred â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the fact that their slaughter is banned in most of the country â&#x20AC;&#x201D; India is the world's fifth-largest consumer and second-largest exporter of beef. The meat, which in India comes from bulls and buffaloes, is widely eaten in some communities, particularly by low-caste Hindus and millions of Muslims and Christians. With the victory of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party last year, hard-line Hindu groups are pushing to expand the slaughter ban to include all types of cattle, male or female. Meat traders, many of whom have carried their trade for generations, are worried about their jobs.

In this April 2, 2015 photo, a devout Hindu Rajeev Sharma feeds cows at a shelter for cows in New Delhi, India. Cows have traditionally been revered in India as Hindus consider the animal sacred. As a resurgent Hindu majority pushes for a nationwide ban on slaughtering cows, the meat industry is scrambling to survive and come up with a way to continue providing beef to the hundreds of millions within the country who still eat it despite the religious taboo. (AP File Photo)

"This is a political decision," said Mohammed Aqil Qureshi, president of the Buffalo Traders Welfare Association in Ghazipur, the New Delhi neighborhood where the slaughterhouse complex is located. "They want to gratify the Hindus and harass the Muslims." A beef ban would hit the poor the most,

Qureshi said. "This is poor people's food and is a key source of nutrition for millions of people," he said. Beef is far cheaper than most meat in India, often just half the price of chicken, making it a key food for people struggling with poverty. Fears among meat traders grew last month when

India's second-most-populous state, Maharashtra, extended the slaughter ban to include bulls. While buffalo was not mentioned in the new law, buffalo meat quickly disappeared from most of the state's butcher shops, amid fears of communal violence if it was confused with cow meat. The ban carries a stiff punishment: Bail is not al-

lowed and anyone convicted of selling or possessing beef faces a 5-year jail term and a $200 fine, a huge sum for poor Indians. Within days of the ban, the red-meat business in Mumbai, the state capital, was forced underground, leaving restaurants and eateries scrambling for alternatives. Meat traders in Maharashtra have chal-

lenged the ban in court, saying tens of thousands of people have lost their jobs. The state's decision did not come as a surprise. During his election campaign, Modi promised a countrywide ban on cow slaughter, and that has emboldened Hindu hardliners. Other states ruled by Modi's party have promised to follow Maharashtra's example. The government in Haryana state, bordering New Delhi, is considering laws making cow slaughter comparable to murder. Offenders would face a life term for killing a cow or bull if the state adopts the planned legislation. Many Hindus regard the cow as the living symbol of their religion. Hindu welfare organizations run "gaushalas," or cow shelters, in many cities where abandoned cows found wandering the streets are given food and shelter. Feeding a cow is seen by many Hindus as a way to appease the gods and get one's wishes fulfilled. "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna," chanted Minu Aggarwal, a housewife, as she fed soaked lentils and leafy greens to a cow at a New Delhi shelter. The chant means "Lord Krishna," a popular Hindu god. As she bent down in obeisance near the animal, a shelter worker touched

her head with the cow's tail â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a blessing, Aggarwal said. Pankaj Bansal, a New Delhi businessman feeding pieces of bread to a cow nearby, praised the bans. "The cow is our mother," he said. "The ban should be imposed all over the country." In recent decades, as millions of Indians traveled abroad for study and work, tastes have slowly changed. Today, many restaurants and small eateries serve steak and kebabs made from buffalo meat. Many people who in the past would not have eaten the meat at home in deference to strictly vegetarian parents and older relatives now openly broil buffalo meat. Economists say a complete ban on cow slaughter could prove counterproductive as farmers would abandon their animals once they stop giving milk. Worse, farmers may consider it economically impossible to keep cows altogether if they must feed the animals for the rest of their lives, said Harish Damodaran, an economic analyst. "The cow has a future only in the states that at least permit selective culling," Damodaran wrote in the Indian Express newspaper, bolstering his argument with figures that showed farmers switching to buffaloes in states that did not allow cow slaughter.

The ban could also spell disaster for India's beef exports, which have grown quickly over the past decade, increasing annually in recent years at 17-19 percent. This year, exporters were expecting a 25 percent increase. They hope they won't be hit hard, but they are anxious. "With such a ban, meat exports are going to suffer badly," said an official at the state-run Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority. He spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to the media. Nearly $5 billion worth of buffalo meat was exported in 2013, with most headed to Southeast Asia and Persian Gulf countries. "It's not just meat exports, but leather and leather goods, tallow, bone meal and other animal product exports that will also suffer," said D.B. Sabharwal, director of Allanasons, India's biggest exporter of buffalo meat. For many Indians, a ban would be an unwelcome government intrusion into their personal lives. "Is the government going to tell us what we can eat and what we cannot eat? We've been eating beef for generations," said Danish Qureshi, a young trader at Ghazipur. "It's like telling people they can't eat sugar. This ban won't work."

'Rapes are not committed Modi's life story reflects India's potential: Obama India to strengthen vigil by those who attend satsang' New along Myanmar border YOrK, April 16 Martin Luther King Jr". "We reflected on the (iANS): Headed by Prime

pANAji, April 16 (iANS): Gujarat-based spiritual preacher Morari Bapu has a unique way for curbing rapes and crimes against women. Morari Bapu, who is on a spree of delivering spiritual discourses in Goa, claims that attending 'satsangs' (spiritual discourses) can help bring down rapes and other crimes against women because such gatherings help attain wisdom. Speaking to reporters here on Wednesday night, the spiritual guru, who counts Prime Minister Narendra Modi among his "fans", also said voters should repeatedly ask their elected parliamentarians about why the women's reservation bill is being stalled and implore them to pass it without delay. Asked if attending satsangs can bring down instances of rape in the country, Morari Bapu said: "As far as I understand, rapes are not committed by those who attend satsang. And satsang is not a religious function...It is a spiritual (experience)." He also said a woman's body should never be subjected to "atrocities, injustice and rape", adding that people should aspire to change the way they look at women by attending satsangs. Murari Bapu, who is known for his discourse on Ramcharitmanas, an epic written by Bhakti cult poet Tulsidas, also said he was not in agreement with the treatment meted out to Sita during the Agnipariksha, where, as the wife of Lord Rama, she was subjected to the rite of purification, which involved walking through fire. Making a case for women having more rights than men in the current times, Morari bapu also said parliamentarians should not lose time in passing the 33 percent women's reservation bill and urged voters to nag their respective MPs. "Voters should ask those same persons who they elect to parliament, about why it is stalled...," he said, adding that he made similar implorations to all elected representatives he met with, including Modi, in the past. "I have told Modiji too. When he was the chief minister, we used to speak from the same stage," he said.

St Stephen's student moves HC seeking stay on his suspension New Delhi, April 16 (iANS): Devansh Mehta, editor and co-founder of online magazine 'St Stephen's Weekly', on Thursday moved the Delhi High Court against the college and its principal Valson Thampu, challenging his suspension and banning of the magazine's publication. On April 15, Mehta was suspended till April 23 after a one-man inquiry committee appointed by the St Stephen's principal found him guilty of "breach of discipline". Mehta, a third-year philosophy student, was allegedly suspended for launching the online magazine. Last month, the college banned the e-zine started by Mehta and other students over an interview of the principal, which, he said, had not been cleared. The e-zine went live on March 7 and registered over 2,000 hits on the interview. Filing the petition, Mehta called the ban "arbitrary, illegal, malafide and shockingly unreasonable". "The main malicious accusations against the petitioner (Mehta) in this case are twofold - that of publishing an online magazine without taking prior approval from the principal and subsequently conveying the news of the proscription of this magazine, to the media," said the plea. Mehta sought "quashing of the order banning/suspending publication of the St Stephen's Weekly, stay on the suspension order and restraining the principal from taking any further action against him". Mehta has also requested in his petition that he be awarded the Rai Saheb Banarsi Das Memorial Prize. In an e-mail last month, Thampu said: "It is unacceptable that, despite being explicitly told not to publish anything (especially my interview before I had the time to go through and clear the text) you went ahead in defiance. It denotes an awkward failure of education and that is why I cannot take it lightly."

Minister Narendra Modi, whom President Barack Obama calls "India's reformer-in-chief", four people of Indian origin figure in the Time magazine's list of the World's 100 most influential people this year. Besides Modi, others on the influential magazine's list of 100 Titans, Pioneers, Artists, Leaders and Icons include Chanda Kochhar, managing director and CEO of ICICI Bank, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadela, and Vikram Patel, co-founder of the NGO Sangath. In his profile of Modi, the commander-in-chief of the world's most powerful country notes, "As a boy, Narendra Modi helped his father sell tea to support their family. "Today, he's the leader of the world's largest democracy, and his life story -- from poverty to Prime Ministera -- reflects the dynamism and potential of India's rise," Obama writes. Reflecting his close relationship with Modi, Obama referring to him by his first name recalls that when "he came to Washington, Narendra and I visited the memorial to Dr.

teachings of King and Gandhi and how the diversity of backgrounds and faiths in our countries is a strength we have to protect," he wrote. "Prime Minister Modi recognises that more than one billion Indians living and succeeding together can be an inspiring model for the world," Obama wrote. "Like India, he transcends the ancient and the modern -- a devotee of yoga who connects with Indian citizens on Twitter and imagines a 'digital India'," Obama wrote. Chanda Kochhar is described by Anshu Jain, cochief executive officer of Deutsche Bank, as "A banker with vision and reach." "She has brought India's largest private bank a global vision and impressive returns, while also reaching out to the nation's masses with branches in remote villages where banks simply didn't exist," Jain writes. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is billed as "The turnaround artist" who is "setting Microsoft up for greatness again". "Changes that once

would have been considered blasphemous -- releasing open-source software, building on iOS and Android and even making Windows free in some cases -- are turning Microsoft around," says Aaron Levie, the CEO of Box. Vikram Patel, cofounder of the NGO Sangath and the Centre for Global Mental Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is described as a "Well-being warrior". "He helps spread the simple yet profound idea of mental health for all. He provides hope that mental illness and trauma make us neither weak nor unworthy of love and re-

spect," writes Barbara Van Dahlen, founder of Give an Hour and the Campaign to Change Direction. The annual TIME 100 issue, the magazine says "tells 100 stories of individual influence. But taken together, these stories are an anthem to interaction, the convergence that occurs when you harmonise a good idea". For the third straight year, Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai, 17, is the youngest person on the list. The oldest person on the list is Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, who at 88 finds himself the steward of the Arab world's youngest democracy.

AgArtAlA/AizAwl, April 16 (iANS): India would strengthen vigil along its border with Myanmar to check drugs and arms smuggling besides movement of inimical elements, including militants, officials said on Thursday. "We would further strengthen the security along the India's border with Myanmar to check smuggling of drugs, arms and other contraband items," a senior Assam Rifles official told IANS, wishing anonymity. "The vigil would also be reinforced to stop trans-border movement of extremists and other inimical elements," the official said. He said: "It is a tough task to guard the unfenced mountainous borders with a full-proof security. Additional Assam Rifles troopers would also be deployed along the Myanmar borders." Four northeastern states - Arunachal Pradesh (520 km), Manipur (398 km), Nagaland (215 km) and Mizoram (510 km) - share 1,643-km unfenced border with Myanmar. Smuggling of drugs, arms, animal pieces, various contraband goods is rampant across the India-Myanmar border, specially along Mizoram's border with that country. According to Mizoram Police, seven AK-47 assault rifles, two AK-56 rifles, six US-made M-16 rifles, four MA-3 Mk-II rifles, two hand grenades, three kg of RDX, around 8,000 rounds of ammunition of different guns and 312 boxes of special and ordinary detonators have been seized by the security forces in Mizoram last year. "Bulk of the seized arms and ammunition were suspected to have been meant for Chakma militant outfit operating in neighbouring Bangladesh and these were mainly smuggled from Myanmar," a Mizoram police official said. Mizoram also shares an unfenced 318 km international border with Bangladesh. According to intelligence officials, Bangladeshi rebels belonging to the Chakma tribal community - Parbartya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samati (PCJSS) - are involved in the arms smuggling. PCJSS's armed wing Shanti Bahini has been demanding sovereign status for tribals in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of southeast Bangladesh and had waged guerrilla warfare against Bangladesh for two decades until 1997.

Vacation over, Rahul Gandhi returns home New Delhi, April 16 (iANS): Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, who was out of the public eye for nearly two months, returned on Thursday. The BJP, however, said "you just cannot shy away from your duties". "He (Rahul Gandhi) is back... I have no doubt that he will be not only taking proactive measures but also with dynamism, with commitment, provide leadership," Congress leader Anand Sharma said. Forty-four-year-old Rahul Gandhi, out of sight since the budget session of parliament began on February 23, returned after 56 days amid intense speculation regarding his whereabouts. There were different versions to his sojourn, with one version saying he was in Myanmar, a second said Thailand and the third talking about Vietnam. He landed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport at 10.45 a.m. on Thai Airways flight TG 323 from Bangkok, a source at the

airport authority said. Some party workers burst firecrackers and celebrated outside Rahul Gandhi's 12, Tughlaq Lane where he arrived around noon. His mother and party president Sonia Gandhi as well as his sister Priyanka Gandhi were already present, an AICC official told IANS. A TV channel showed photographs of Rahul Gandhi sitting in a vehicle as an SPG commando stood close by. The BJP took a dig at him. "There is nothing called as part time politics, it's a complete full time job," BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said. "You just cannot shy away from your duties that you have promised to deliver," he added. After missing from action since the budget session of parliament began on February 23, the Congress vice president will address a kisan-mazdoor (farmer-labour) rally here on April 19 to protest what the Congress has described as the "anti-farmer" Naren-

dra Modi government. Gandhi is also scheduled to hold meetings with party leaders as well as farmers' leaders on Friday to discuss the contours and details of the rally at Ramlila Ground here. On his return, Gandhi was expected to be elevated as the party chief at an AICC session in April, but the session was later rescheduled until after July. Describing him as natural choice for party president, senior Congress legislator Rita Bahuguna Joshi told IANS that Rahul Gandhi is a "widely accepted leader" in the Congress who "automatically fits into the profile" of the party chief. "There is a huge demand in the party for him to take over. The transition will be very smooth as he already knows the party, its organisation and the people," Joshi said. Joshi said that he has returned with "more force and commitment" with an agenda to travel across India to raise issues that are

anti-people and prevent the government from going ahead with the land acquisition bill. Party worker Jadish Sharma told reporters that he would soon be made party chief after April 19. Sharma also claimed that Rahul Gandhi was in Uttarakhand during his sabbatical and not in Bangkok as was being reported by a section of the media. Rahul Gandhi's unexplained leave of absence prompted simmering noises within the Congress. Former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dixit was quoted as saying, "...(in case of ) Rahul, of course, there is a question mark, there is skepticism because you have not seen him perform as yet." Her remarks echoed the sentiments of a few other senior leaders who demanded Sonia Gandhi should continue as party president. The Congress vice president's absence assumed greater significance as he

A boy holds a poster of Rahul Gandhi, vice president of Congress party, after an election campaign rally in Kolkata in this May 8, 2014 photo. (REUTERS File Photo)

went on a sabbatical amid intensely fluid political season due to the land acquisition bill. The party, however, contended that Rahul Gandhi's absence was for his need to chart out the party's future course in "isolation" after a series of elec-

toral drubbings. Fifth in a row since the 2014 general election, the embarrassing drubbing in Delhi early this year posed a formidable challenge for the party to reverse its sliding fortunes ahead of the Bihar assembly polls later this year.

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Nepal Prime Minister Thapa dies at age 87

Relatives and supporters wait for the body of Nepal’s former Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa, photograph behind, to arrive at his residence in Kathmandu on Thursday, April 16. Thapa, who served as Nepal’s prime minister five times, died in a hospital in India where he was being treated for stomach cancer, an official said Thursday. He was 87. (AP Photo)

KAtHMANDu, April 16 (Ap): Surya Bahadur Thapa, who served as Nepal’s prime minister five times, has died in a hospital in India where he was being treated for stomach cancer, an official said Thursday. He was 87. Thakur Sharma, a spokesman for Thapa’s Rastriya Prajatantra Party, said he was hospitalized at Medanta Hospital on the outskirts of New Delhi last week and died Wednesday night. He served as Nepal’s prime minister three times before 1990 when kings ruled the Himalayan state with a rubber-stamp parliament and a ban on political parties. After a multiparty democracy was established in 1990, he formed the Rastriya Prajatantra Party and held the post of prime minister twice. He stepped down in 2005. He was the oldest member of Nepal’s 601-member Constituent Assembly which is currently drafting a constitution. His body will be flown to Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, for cremation on Friday, Sharma said. Thapa is survived by a son and three daughters. His son, Sunil Bahadur Thapa, is Nepal’s commerce and supply minister. His wife died some years ago.

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Putin defends Iran missile decision

MOSCOW, April 16 (Ap): President Vladimir Putin sternly urged the West to respect Russia’s interests in global affairs and defended his move to sanction the delivery of a long-range air defense missile system to Iran during a marathon TV call-in show with the nation Thursday. Putin scathingly criticized Washington for refusing to see Moscow as an equal partner and warned that Russia-West ties, in shambles over the Ukrainian crisis, could only be normalized when the U.S. and its allies show readiness for compromise. He also described the killing of top Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov as “tragic and shameful” and said he wasn’t certain if Russian law-enforcement agencies would be able to track down those who organized it. The president focused heavily on economic issues during the show, a slickly produced hours-long annual affair intended to burnish his image. He said the nation’s economic performance has remained strong, despite Western sanctions slapped on Russia over the Ukrainian crisis and a slump in global oil prices. He pointed at the ruble’s recovery as a sign of a re-

newed investor confidence in Russia. Putin, whose approval ratings top 80 percent despite the recession, said the country can overcome any challenges if it remains united. “If we preserve a stable situation in domestic politics, preserve the current consolidation of society, we shouldn’t fear any threats,” he said. Official estimates are that Russia’s economy will shrink by 3 to 5 percent this year in its steepest decline since Putin took office 15 years ago, but Putin said the slump would likely be less significant. Turning to foreign policy issues, Putin said his decision to lift a 2010 Russian ban on the delivery of the powerful S-300 air defense missile system to Iran followed a tentative deal on ending the Iranian nuclear standoff reached by Tehran and six world powers earlier this month. He said Iran should be rewarded for showing “a great degree of flexibility and a desire to reach compromise” in the talks. He said the S-300 is a defensive weapon that shouldn’t pose any threat to Israel, and may in fact serve as “a deterrent factor in connection with the situation in Yemen.”

Putin said that Russia would continue to cooperate with its international partners on negotiating a definitive nuclear deal with Iran. He argued that the international sanctions against Iran still in place don’t ban the delivery of the S-300, which Russia had halted voluntarily. He argued that Russia remains open for overcoming the current tensions with the West, but warned Washington that it should stop treating Moscow as an inferior partner if it wants good ties. “The main condition is to have respect for Russia and its interests,” he said, adding that the United States “doesn’t need allies, they need vassals.” Putin said that despite the frictions with the West, “we don’t see anyone as enemy,” adding that “we don’t recommend anyone to see us as enemy.” He also criticized Ukraine, accusing it of violating its obligations under February’s peace deal by maintaining an economic blockade on rebellious eastern regions, refusing to deliver pensions and other social payments to people in the east, and shutting financial services to the region. Putin argued that the Ukrainian leadership is

Russian President Vladimir Putin,listens during an annual call-in show on Russian television “Conversation With Vladimir Putin” in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, April 16, 2015. President Vladimir Putin sternly urged the West to respect Russia’s interests in global affairs and defended his move to sanction the delivery of a long-range air defense missile system to Iran during a marathon TV call-in show with the nation. (AP Photo)

effectively cutting off the eastern regions from the rest of the country. At the same time, the Russian president insisted that he remains committed to cooperating with the Ukrainian president to overcome the crisis, adding that the Minsk agreement signed in February provides the only way out of it. He reaffirmed a strong denial of Ukrainian and Western claims that Russia

has sent troops to back the rebels in eastern Ukraine. “There are no Russian troops in Ukraine,” he said. When a jittery resident of areas in southwestern Russia near the border with Ukraine asked him if they should fear a war, Putin answered with a categoric ‘no.’ “You live in calm,” he said. Asked about the killing of Nemtsov, who was shot dead just outside the Kremlin on Feb. 27, Putin praised

Russian law-enforcement agencies for nabbing the suspected perpetrators, but said he doesn’t know if it will be possible to track down the mastermind. The five suspects, all Chechens, have remained in custody. Observers say their arrest has highlighted tensions between Russian law-enforcement agencies and Chechnya’s Kremlinbacked strongman, Ramzan Kadyrov.

Angry kin unmoved by SKorean Prez’s vow Anti-fungal drug may treat cancer too to salvage ferry SeOul, April 16 (Ap): Angry relatives of passengers who drowned in a ferry sinking snubbed South Korea’s president on the disaster’s anniversary Thursday, even as she pledged to salvage the ship. Tears and grief mixed with raw fury as black-clad relatives and their supporters mourned the 304 victims of the ferry Sewol, most of whom were high school students. Earlier in the day, relatives blocked the prime minister from attending a mourning event. They later canceled another ceremony because of what they called government indifference to their plight. There’s widespread fatigue among many South Koreans a year after one of the country’s worst disasters. But there’s also frustration among those who see their government as having failed to meaningfully improve safety standards and hold high-level officials accountable for a disaster blamed in part on incompetence and corruption. Hours before a trip abroad, President Park Geun-hye visited a small port near the site of the sinking to offer her condolences to the bereaved relatives. Most, however, refused to meet her, in protest of the government’s handling of the sinking, and had already left the port. Park gave a speech anyway, announcing ship salvaging plans for the first time. She provided few details, however, saying only the salvage operation would happen “as soon as possible.” Flags in public buildings were lowered to half-staff and a minute of silence was observed in Ansan, the city that lost nearly an entire class of students on a doomed field trip to a southern resort island. A private ceremony was planned at Danwon High

NeW YOrK, April 16 (iANS): A drug commonly used to treat a broad range of fungal infections, including skin and nail infections, has a lot of potential as a new cancer treatment, research has found. Itraconazole, a generic anti-fungal agent that costs relatively less, shows some evidence of efficacy in metastatic prostate cancer -- which would make it an attractive proposition given the high costs associated with cancer treatments such as arbiraterone, said Pan Pantziarka, member of the Repurposing Drugs in Oncology (ReDO) project that researched the potential of the drug. The ReDO project is an international collaboration of anticancer researchers that seeks to repurpose

well-known and well-characterised non-cancer drugs for new uses in oncology. “Itraconazole shows potential in a number of areas with high unmet patient needs, particularly in non-small cell lung cancer and possibly in some rarer malignancies,” Pantziarka pointed out. The low cost of itraconazole could make it an attractive cancer treatment in low and middle income countries. But there are a few roadblocks that must be addressed before this anti-fungal medication can reach the anti-cancer market, the researchers noted. “Our intention in collecting data on re-purposed drugs is to do more than merely bringing it to the attention of the medical community,” study author Lydie Meheus from the Anticancer Fund,

Belgium. “It is rather obvious that the pharma industry is not interested in taking the driver’s seat when we are dealing with commercially neglected drugs,” Meheus noted. “Consequently we are currently in a catch-22 situation, since only the ‘owners’ of a market authorisation can apply for a new indication!” Meheus said. But according to leaders of the ReDO project, these re-purposed anticancer drugs such as antifungals and painkillers may represent the future of cancer drug research. The researchers hope that increased awareness will bring these medications out of the medicine cabinet - and possibly into cancer care. The study was published in the journal ecancermedicalscience.

‘Rebirth is Dalai Lama’s choice’ A Buddhist monk bows to pay tribute to victims of the sunken ferry Sewol at a temporary memorial altar in Seoul, South Korea on Thursday, April 16. Tears and grief mixed with raw anger Thursday as black-clad relatives mourned the 300 people, mostly high school kids, killed one year ago when the ferry Sewol sank in cold waters off the southwestern South Korean coast. (AP Photo)

School in the evening. Relatives canceled a memorial service in Ansan that thousands were planning to attend. They expressed anger over President Park not visiting the site and not providing a firm commitment for a deeper investigation into what they say is government responsibility for the sinking and botched rescue. The relatives also claimed that Park should have delivered a more detailed plan for salvaging the ship during her speech at the port, according to Pil Kyu Hwang, a lawyer representing the families. The estimated cost of raising the ferry is between $91 million and $137 million, and it could take as long as 1½ years. Relatives in Ansan wept and

touched pictures of their lost loved ones as they recalled helplessly watching on television as the ferry slowly sank into the sea. Scores at the port near the sunken ship walked to a lighthouse where hundreds of yellow ribbons were tied to handrails in memory of the victims. Rallies, candle light vigils and other gatherings were planned in downtown Seoul, where relatives of the victims have been holding protests for months. Also Thursday, South Korean lawmakers adopted a resolution urging the government to salvage the ferry. Of the 165 lawmakers in the National Assembly session, 161 voted to adopt the resolution, two voted against it and two abstained.

BeijiNG, April 16 (reuterS): It is up to the Dalai Lama to decide whether he will be reborn, Tibetan Buddhism’s third highest religious leader has said, after Chinese officials repeatedly said the exiled Dalai Lama had no right to abandon reincarnation. Ogyen Trinley Dorje, who holds the title of Karmapa Lama and lives in exile in India, told Radio Free Asia in an interview in Washington that he had “complete belief” in the ability of the Dalai Lama to decide his fate after death. “In Tibetan traditions, we don’t talk much about the reincarnation of a living master,” he said late on Wednesday. “However, now many questions are being generated. In my

view, it is only the Dalai Lama himself who should decide about his future reincarnation. So I am confident and have full trust in his decision. There are many presumptive statements and guess works, but I am not worried,” he said. The Karmapa is close to the Dalai Lama and after him is the most eminent Lama to have fled Chinese rule of Tibet, which Communist forces “peacefully liberated” in 1950. Despite his escape across the Himalayas in 2000, the Karmapa remains recognised by Beijing as the 17th incarnation of his spiritual lineage. Tibetan Buddhism holds that the soul of a senior lama is reincarnated in the body of a child on his death. China says the

Dalai Lama. (REUTERS File Photo)

tradition must continue and it must approve the next Dalai Lama. However the Nobel peace laureate, who fled his homeland in 1959 after an abortive uprising against Chinese rule,

has said he thinks the title could end when he dies. Tibet’s China-appointed governor last month accused the Dalai Lama of blasphemy for doubting reincarnation.

One year on, Thailand’s testy coup leader battles dictator label BANGKOK, April 16 (reuterS): The last two times Thailand’s army grabbed control, in 2006 and 2014, fortune teller Warin Buawiratlert called it, informing the wouldbe junta ahead of time that they were destined for power. So when Warin recently predicted that junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha was set to stay for up to three years - far beyond his declared “roadmap” for a return to civilian rule - the media in this mysticismobsessed country crackled with the news. The military government quickly poured cold water on the prediction. But for a growing chorus of domestic critics, it was yet another signal that Thailand’s irascible leader is getting far too comfortable with power almost a year after the military coup.

Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha gestures the traditional greeting as he gets in his car after the merit-making ceremony on the occasion of Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn’s birthday at Sanam Luang in Bangkok April 2. (REUTERS Photo)

“If (the army) had come to fix short-term problems and adjust the rules for neutrality and fairness, and then returned power to the

people, I would have accepted that,” said Chavalit Vichayasut, deputy secretary general of the Puea Thai Party of ousted Prime

Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. “But if the fortune teller’s prophecy is correct, the country will shatter.” When the army took

over last May, most observers expected something similar to previous coups: a brief interregnum, and then a transfer to civilian government. That hasn’t happened. Elections originally slated for this year have been pushed back to 2016, while junta-picked representatives draft a new constitution. Since the coup, at least 712 people have been summoned by the military for “attitude adjustment” and 159 have been charged with political offences, according to iLaw, a legal monitoring organisation. Martial law was abolished this month, but has been replaced with rule under Article 44 of the junta’s interim constitution. It grants sweeping powers that have been decried by domestic critics and the United Nations as even more authoritarian.

The result is a throwback to the kind of sustained military dictatorship last experienced by Thailand in the depths of the Cold War, said Thailand scholar Chris Baker. “Prayuth has got this opinion of himself and his power which has become more and more evident in the last couple of months, really, that he thinks he can do anything,” Baker said. The junta’s goal appears to be to stifle dissent while it drafts a constitution that will curtail the power of political parties, favouring Thailand’s traditional military and bureaucratic elite, Baker said. Tension between a royalist elite and popularly elected governments linked to exiled billionaire and former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was overthrown in 2006, has underscored a decade

of political turmoil. But even anti-Thaksin activists, whose protests sparked last year’s coup, have been sidelined. Some members of the pro-establishment Democrat Party have joined Thaksin’s Puea Thai in criticising the direction of the draft constitution. Gaffes And Threats Prayuth’s image has not been helped by a series of public outbursts and gaffes. In one incident, he flung a banana peel at TV cameras and last month said with a straight face that he would “probably just execute” journalists who did “not report the truth.” The junta, which dismisses Prayuth’s antics as the product of an off-beat sense of humour, is keen to put a benign face on its sustained rule. Just because the military has the power under Article 44 to

detain and charge anyone it deems a threat to security does not mean it will necessarily use its full powers, spokesman Yongyuth Mayalarp said. “The prime minister has said many, many times that he is adhering to the roadmap that is proceeding at the moment and there have been no deviations so far,” he said. Article 44 is also aimed at clearing bureaucratic hurdles to much-needed economic reforms, he said. Indeed, it is being used to shake up the aviation industry and fight forest encroachment. Fortune teller Warin insists that old acquaintance Prayuth does not intend to hold on to power longer than pledged but because of the underlying dissent he may have no choice. “He has taken on a heavy burden, the entire country,” he said.

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NCA informs

KOhimA, APRil 16 (mexN): The Nagaland Chess Association (NCA) held an emergency meeting at the residence of K Sekhamo, President NCA on April 14 to discuss the forthcoming Nagaland Chess Challenger 2015 and for the Silver Jubilee celebration of the Association. The members resolved to conduct the Chess Challenger 2015 and tentatively fixed the date for April 26 to 29. The entry fee for senior participants will be Rs. 100, while for juniors players, the entry fee will be Rs. 500. The members further resolved to celebrate 25 years of NCA existence and share its achievement, stated K. Sekhamo, President and Denis Angami, General Secretary in a press not. The release further informed that the NCA members have decided to approach the government for financial assistance for the success of the programs.

Pupil Mourinho aims to halt master Louis Van Gaal again

lONdON, APRil 16 (ReuTeRs): When Jose Mourinho jumped to beleaguered Louis van Gaal's defence in February, sympathising that he should be given time to get used to English football, even he might have been surprised at just how quickly his mentor has since adapted. At the time, Van Gaal's Manchester United were pleasing nobody, stodgy and struggling, but a run of six straight, ever more convincing wins sees them march to Mourinho's Chelsea fortress on Saturday with the master ready to beat his pupil for the first time. If Van Gaal could orchestrate Chelsea's third league defeat of the season and move within five points of the leaders -- albeit having played a game more than the Londoners -- it could yet inject a smidgen of uncertainty into a race which was beginning to resemble a Chelsea procession. Especially because Arsenal, currently seven points

behind Chelsea but having a weekend off from Premier League duty to concentrate on their FA Cup defence, will then host the leaders the following Sunday. Alternatively, it could be the start of the race's decisive week because if Chelsea win both matches, they will be effectively home and hosed, ready to savour their first title since 2010. Van Gaal will have other ideas. The Dutchman, who gave Mourinho his big break when he was coach of Barcelona and trusted his young assistant to the extent that Mourinho would occasionally take training and give team talks, has yet to beat his protege in managerial combat. Famously, Mourinho's Inter Milan beat Van Gaal's Bayern Munich 2-0 in the 2010 Champions League final and, when they met at Old Trafford in October, only a late, late Robin van Persie goal earned United a 1-1 draw in a game Chelsea should have won.

Now, though, United are flying and their former England full back Gary Neville, now a highly-respected TV analyst, says that, though it will be the "toughest test" yet for Van Gaal, United's performances this past month would be "absolutely outstanding in any season". Following the most outstanding, their 4-2 derby mauling of Manchester City, the deflated champions cannot afford to feel sorry for themselves as they seek to consolidate their critical fourth place in the table with Sunday's visit of West Ham. Southampton can leapfrog Liverpool, who have FA Cup business this weekend, and move into sixth place if they beat 10th-placed Stoke City Meanwhile, the fascinating battle for Premier League survival sees bottom club Leicester City aim to continue their resurgence when hosting Swansea City, while Burnley, just a point ahead of Leicester, travel to 12th-placed Everton.

Porto scores stunning win over Bayern

PORTO, APRil 16 (ReuTeRs): Ricardo Quaresma's two early goals and a second-half strike from Jackson Martinez helped a slick Porto complete a stunning 3-1 home victory over a sloppy Bayern Munich in their Champions League quarter-final first leg on Wednesday. The Portuguese side exploded into action with two goals in the opening 10 minutes. Bayern came into the game, a repeat of the 1987 European Cup final which Porto won 2-1, ravaged by injuries and robbed of the services of Arjen Robben, Franck Ribery, Bastian Schweinsteiger and David Alaba among others. It was, however, a different story for Porto, who welcomed back Martinez from a hamstring injury. The Colombia striker wasted little time in making his mark, robbing a dawdling Xabi Alonso of the ball on the edge of the Bayern box before being felled by Neuer's outstretched leg. The Bayern keeper was perhaps lucky to receive just a yellow card, but his punishment was swiftly increased

public discourse An open letter to the national president of Bharathiya Janatha Party Dear Mr. Amit Shahaji, Welcome Mr. Amit Shahaji to Nagaland on behalf of the Christian Churches of Nagaland. We are glad that we have this God given opportunity to present ourselves as Christians. We do this because we hear time and again accusations about us Christians, about our accepting Christian faith, and more often about the ‘missionaries’. We are aware that the there has been no official accusations from the BJP on any aspects of our Christian faith. We thank you and the party for it. The accusations have been from your constituents, viz. the RSS, VHP etc. who made you what you are. We are not listing the ac-

cusations here. But they boil down to one thing, that Christianity is a foreign thing, Christian faith is suspect, traitorous, anti national, and so to be destroyed. We like the BJP to understand three of our concerns: One: Our ancestors were not Hindus, because they did not worship Lord Ram, Shri Krishna, Hanuman or any other deities of the Hindu pantheon. They accepted Christianity. There was no inducement, but only deprivation, because our forefathers who became Christians were expelled from their villages. One relevant question is, why no ‘Hindu missionary’ came to tell us about Lord Ram, although we were living as neighbours for three millennia or more? The Hindu mis-

sionaries went; only to the palaces of the kings of NE India, like those of the Ahoms and Meitheis. They did not come to us because we were considered as Mlekchas’ (barbarians). The Christian missionaries came because Jesus taught them to call all human beings brothers and sisters. Two: Our Churches do not use funds for antinational activities. Funds for legitimate religious activities, recognized as such by the law of the land, are received by the Churches both from India as well as from foreign countries. The constant clamour of the Hindu fundamental organizations is to stop the Christians receiving funds from foreign countries. As the ruling political party, we request you to

study the foreign funding details of the Hindu and Christian religious organizations and publish the details for the good of the nation. Three: Two of the sacred days of the Christian community -Christmas and Good Friday -are being tampered with by the BJP Government. Lame excuses were made to justify the action, comparing the case of the US and India. As the law of the land stands, these are National Holidays and not religious holidays. Like the US, if we do not want to have religious festivals as national holidays, let us go ahead and do it. ‘Development of all with the good will of all..... ; ALL includes the Christians. The Dimapur Christian Forum Fr. Chacko Karinthayil, Secretary

sycophancy at its best

oly Cow! What is our world coming to? Temporarily stationed at Chumukedima Police Complex for the High Power Committee assignment, I have been watching with amazement, all the frantic preparation being made to welcome one Mr. Amit Shah, the National President of BJP Political Party, visiting Nagaland on the 17th April 2015. By all account Mr. Shah has no protocol standing and is nowhere in the National order of precedence unlike Chief Ministers and MPs who have. Being powerfully close to the Prime Minister of India therefore, does not alter his status beyond being a mere political party activist. His sole agenda for a visit to Nagaland is to galvanise and enhance the influence of BJP in this region. He would therefore, be duty bound to attempt enticing the Nagas to join the BJP rank and brainwash the Nagas to show obeisance to their holy cow, now a protected animal by law in States like Maharashtra and Haryana with the hell bent intention of RSS to make this law applicable Nationwide. This is a fanatical racist Party that places a cow above mankind, willing to legally prosecute anyone for cow slaughter. The gullible Nagas are probably prepared to play along with Mr. Amit Shah and agree to worship the cow for the present in order to milk 'Shah-cow' for power and money, even if they otherwise have 'cow meat' cooked for dinner later in the night. The code of honour that our ancestors stood for has now become a scarce commodity with sycophancy becoming the more dominant characteristics abundantly visible in our own backyards. The State machinery gearing up full steam to host a political party personality that is responsible for perpetuating atrocities against the Christian and Muslim minorities in the country and aspiring to elevate the status of a cow above man is astounding. Chumukedima Conference Hall is being refurbished with new sets of Voltas air-conditioners on a war footing. While this refurbishment may be in the normal works programme of the Police Department

to do so, the timing is in poor taste. It appears more like the work is being done with urgency to afford Mr. Amit Shah the comfort zone to enable him to indoctrinate the 'christian' (not 'Christian' with a capital "C") Nagas to become Hindu cow-lovers. This kind of a christian is just another 'Clan' of a Naga Tribe now being primed to become cow worshippers. I have witnessed wine glasses and beer mugs of all shapes and sizes having been washed and carefully laid out on the dining table of the Police Mess for a dinner fling with his party cow herders on the 17th night of April 2015. The Commissioner Excise ought to also come for inspection and ensure that the police staffs and Officers deployed for this task are doing so elegantly enough in keeping with the status of BJP President...after all a thing called "Prohibition" is just an eyewash. The Home Commissioner of Nagaland and hoards of other senior Civil and Police officers have been hovering all over the place to ensure that all things are in order. The whole atmosphere in the Police Complex is akin to the elaborate preparation made during the Prime Minister's visit earlier. The changed meeting schedule of Mr. Amit Shah as published by Nagaland Post (16th April 2015) is also quite amusingly revealing. It is the RSS that takes the first focused attention of Mr. Amit Shah followed by the BJP Nagaland State cowherd unit. One wonders whether the Naga cows have any gray matter left in them to see through this National priority of the BJP where we are just mere pawns in their communal chessboard. From the Naga's perspective, the hoard of NGOs like the Naga Hoho/ENPO/NMA/Naga Council/Muslim community and the Church being slated for a couple of hours to meet Mr. Shah does not make any sense to me. Nagas would do well to remember that the Christian persecution and discrimination and criminal vandalism of Churches in the mainland is more than real being covertly encouraged by the BJP Government at the Centre through their communal RSS/VHP thugs. Everyone

with a spot of gray in between the ears ought to see through the lip service to secularism being enunciated by the Prime Minister only in order to retain acceptability in the eyes of the International Community. The routine persecution and coercion beginning to happen in action against Muslims and Christians within his kitchen is entirely a world apart. Therefore, no amount of verbalising will make an iota of difference to a made up mind of BJP on the issue of secularism... unless of course our NGOs have other personal economic agendas that they would like to accrue from such a meeting. If the Nagas are truly Christians and would want to send out clear signal that persecution and discrimination against the Christians is not acceptable, the only language that the communal forces will understand is a boycott of its ideological stalwart like Shah. They ought to avoid him like a leper instead of making a disciplined beeline to meet him. This action would have more impact than words can express. It appears that Mr. Amit Shah has graciously reserved 7.45 - 8.15 PM for Chief Minister of Nagaland. The earlier itinerary had the Governor of Nagaland also listed in this gracious gesture of a time slot by Amit Shah. Probably better senses have prevailed in the Raj Bhavan, Kohima because the Governor seems to have been excluded in the latest schedule... unless even he has been included in the first schedule of Mr. Amit Shah's meeting with the RSS as an RSS member and not as Governor of Nagaland. Whereas it does not seem to have dawned on Mr. T.R. Zaliang that he is the Chief Minister of Nagaland. This office is not a private property for him to do as he pleases. There is an issue of an honourable protocol. For all practical purpose, Mr. Amit Shah is only a BJP activist who should be calling on the Chief Minister of Nagaland if at all and not the other way round. It is an insult to the Nagas as a whole that our Naga Chief Minister should be attending a time frame appointment given by a no body. What is even more unpalatable is for the face-

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less Chief Minister of Nagaland to cheaply go through this humiliating motion without considering the fact of an official protocol violation. The annual Plan/Non-Plan State Fund is an obligation that the Centre is constitutionally honour bound to provide without our having to grovel for it. The State is also duty bound to use its resources transparently. The obvious problem here is that the State's annual allocation is being siphoned off from under the table and no matter what the amount, it is not sufficient enough to fill the bottomless pockets of the politicians and the bureaucrats. Asking for more at the cost of our honour has become a natural/normal way of life in Nagaland for which the Chief Minister is prepared to forget his station and ignore all protocol norms like a sycophant would do. Shame on him but more so, shame on us for perpetuating sycophant Chief Minister and MPs who also have been time slotted in Mr. Shah's schedule as well! Has the Chief Minister not already done enough damage by ordering the Government machinery to officially peruse the business of hosting Mr. Amit Shah, a political party man whose party political activities has no relevance to the Government servants? This is a foul unacceptable precedent being set. It is also not a duty for the Government to fend for his comfort zone but for the BJP cow herders to do so. Instead he is being treated as a VVIP in the Police House meant for official dignitaries. These are all very clear signs of cracks that are beginning to already appear around our Christian foundry which the Church needs to recognise and stand prepared for the real battle of faith ahead. Are we, as a people, capable of withstanding this Hindutva onslaught? Maybe we shall review this question some other time. For now we might just as well accept our status as sycophants willing to sell our mothers for a buck...starting with our very own...the Chief Minister of Nagaland. This is sycophancy at its best. Khekiye K. Sema IAS (Rtd) Camp: Chumukedima Police Complex

Porto's Ricardo Quaresma, left, scores the opening goal from the penalty spot past Bayern's goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, right, during the Champions League quarterfinal first leg soccer match between FC Porto and Bayern Munich at the Dragao Stadium in Porto, Portugal, Wednesday, April 15. (AP Photo)

as Quaresma stepped up to stroke the penalty into the bottom corner. There was no time for the visitors' nerves to settle as Quaresma pounced on another mistake, robbing Dante before dashing through and beating Neuer with an expertly-taken finish with the outside of his boot to make it 2-0 after 10 minutes. It looked like Bayern could be on the end of an embarrassing scoreline

as the hosts' slick passing was cutting through at will. But the Germans clawed a goal back on 28 minutes when Boateng's low cross from the right escaped both Danilo and Bruno Martins Indi to reach Alcantara, who slotted home coolly past Porto keeper Fabiano. The visitors were grateful to Neuer for pulling off a stunning fingertip save early in the second half to prevent Boateng scoring an own

goal, before Porto took a well-deserved and potentially decisive 3-1 lead. Bayern's dismal defending cost them again when Boateng failed to deal with a high ball and Martinez stole in to round Neuer and sidefoot home. An increasingly fraught second half was littered with yellow cards and bookings for Porto's firstchoice full backs Danilo and Alex Sandro ruled them out of the second leg in Munich.

An open letter

in our country as BJP miserably failed to Written to the respected Amit Shah, prevent human right violations by its President of BJP on his maiden visit in the name of religion. to Dimapur, Nagaland on 17.4.2015 5. cadres You have erased the 25th December Dear and respected Amitji At the outset, I, the undersigned, on my own behalf, heartily welcome you to Dimapur, Nagaland. I wish you to feel at home and enjoy the brief stopover at our humble home of Christians. I consider this maiden visit of yours to be an opportunity for me to bring to your kind notice the sentimental issues pertaining to the interest, aspirations and wellbeing of Christians in India in particular vis-a-vis the sincere concern for the integrity of the great country, India. Belated and yet it is better than never, and I congratulate you for the massive mandate your party BJP got from the people of India in the last Parliamentary elections in 2014. You being at the helm of affairs of the country, I deserve to convey my feelings and you have the duty to note those accordingly. 1. Respected Sir, for your kind information that there was no consensus among the Nagas of Nagaland on the issue of Nagas joining the Union of India when it got her Independence. The unending political turmoil which has been inflicting the tiny State of Nagaland is the offshoot of that discord at the beginning over the creation of Nagaland as the 16th State in the Union as per the 16 Points Memorandum of Naga Peoples’ Convention. For your information that few clauses in the Memorandum are yet to be fulfilled even after 55 years of approval of the document by GOI. I appeal to you not to undermine the political and constitutional rights of the Nagas despite of so much confusions being created by ourselves at home. The political unrest in Nagaland is neither India’s peace nor the pride of the country. 2. I am required to clarify it to you Sir, that we, the Nagas, are not Hindus by race. There is no ambiguity about our origin as Mongoloid. The Nagas of Nagaland have been Indians for the last half a century by constitution but not by race. Therefore, I refused and also rejected the claims of RSS leaders, namely, Mohan Bhagwat and D. Hosabale that “all are DNA-wise Hindus”. It is a mere figment of imagination of BJP leaders and workers that all those who are born in India are Hindus. Such majority-ism bully at Christians and other minorities cannot convert Naga DNA into Hindu DNA. I do not believe that a Hindu is a better India than a non-Hindu. Your superiority complex has therefore much weakened the social fabric in this big country. 3. For your kind information that our ancestors were animist till the American missionary brought the Good News, i.e., Christianity, i.e., Salvation through Jesus Christ about one and half century ago. Despite of the dramatic conversion of Nagas from animism to Christianity, we still have the remnants of animism in few villages. I too was once a strong animist myself and I know animism is never Hinduism. There is no genetic relationship between animism and Hinduism to be brief as I would avoid citing evidences for want of space. 4. Respected Amitji, what I am to remind your esteem authority are not what you are unaware of. Rather I believe that you are the one monitoring all these activities being carried out by no other than your workers under the garb of RSS, VHP, Bajrang Dal, Hindu Mahasabha, etc. including Shiv Sena, the permanent allied partner of BJP ever since you took over the Government at the centre. You know well that the destruction of Christian assets, desecration of churches, Christian institutes, harassment of Christians through your coercive proselytization programs and raping of Christian women by hooligans remain unabated. The Christians feel no more safe and secured

2014, the Christmas, the most universally eventful day in the world from the Calendar of the Government of India(GOI). With ulterior motive and to do the same to the just concluded Easter holiday, your Govt. fixed three day conference coinciding with it. These are all intended to insult and hurt the sentiment of Christians in this country. 6. You are committing two crimes at a time in view of Serial No.4&5. Persecution of Christians is crime. Secondly, your actions are in violation of the fundamental rights provided to citizens of India in Art 25 and Art 26 of Indian Constitution. If your party BJP and your partner Shiv Sena are determined to transform Indian democracy to theocratic State, why don’t you go for amendment of those Articles in the Constitution? Why keep it and violate it at will as its custodian? 7. Sir, your permanent partner Shiv Sena, under your patronage, opined that voting right of Muslims should be written off. I, as a Christian, feel more unsafe than the Muslims in the face of such threat. If Muslims, who reportedly have 14% of the population, are denationalized, will Hinduism activists, who are ruling today, care for 3% Christians from denying basic and constitutional rights and our nationality to us? 8. As worst as above, a Hindu Mahasabha leader suggested that sterilisation should be made compulsory for Christians and Muslims so as to control their population growth in India. What more insult and disrespect can we expect from Hinduism activists? To BJP and its cadres, Christians are rated below the status of cow. Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra States have now imposed ban on cow slaughter. The Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh officially announced that ban of cow slaughter would be enforced in the whole of India. In other words, Sir, you are trying to diminish the Christian and Muslim population and increase the cow population. It implies that Hindus have more confidence in cow than in Christians and Muslims. Ridiculous. My reaction to this the other day was that you must have burrowed the wisdom from the ancient Roman Emperor Caligula who placed his favourite horse Incitatus as senator with powers above all human senators in his empire. That was nothing but madness, foolishness and unfit to rule. I stand to correction, but the unveiling of two statues of Mahatma Gandhi, one in England and the other in Germany by PM Cameron and PM Modi respectively sent solid message to Hindus in India. The message I read is that we, the other nations respect Gandhiji for what he had done for India in particular and for humanity at large. Do not forget that had not Gandhiji been there, India would have still remained under a colonial rule. Another dissimilar message came to Hindus from Johannesberg, South Africa that the statue of the Father of Indian nation was defaced with white paint. If we do not respect ourselves, who should respect us. Firstly, I do not blame those Africans but I blame and hold those Hindu fundamentalists who are fond of battering the Father of the Nation responsible for all these negative and positive reactions. The PM Modi is on foreign tour and wooing the foreign investors with his best. Yet, peace in the country is becoming more evasive everyday. The religious minorities are all the time under threat as we continue to receive assaults from Hinduism activists in deeds and in words. Do you think the social unrest, gaps created between communities, manufacturing distrusts and lack of peace for minorities will become an attractive factor to foreign investors? What a contrast. – Yours Sincerely, Z. Lohe, Ex-Speaker, NLA

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Soundtrack topS the BillBoard 200 alBumS chart

he movie is a runaway success in the box offices domestically and internationally, and now it can add the Billboard charts as another conquest. In addition its reign at the top of the American box offices, Furious 7 has doubled its domination after its soundtrack album roared to Number One in the Billboard 200. The multi-artist compila-

ends

20 year career on runway

isele Bundchen bid adieu to the catwalk Wednesday night, strutting her stuff at an emotionally charged show in Sao Paulo that she said will be her last stroll down a runway in a 20-year career that has

made her a fashion legend. The 34-year-old Brazilian mother of two, who is married to NFL quarterback Tom Brady, has said she wants to spend more time with her family but has also vowed to contin-

Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen smiles and gestures at the end of the show from the Colcci Summer collection at Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Wednesday, April 15. Bundchen, the Brazilian supermodel who has lit up catwalks around the world for 20 years, is retiring from the runway. (AP Photo)

ue working in the industry. Brady was on hand for Bundchen's final appearance, competing with his wife for the cameras' attention as he took in the spectacle from the first row. As the world's highestpaid model, according to a 2014 ranking by Forbes magazine, Bundchen is the face of Chanel, Carolina Herrera, Pantene and other top brands. She also designs her own line of flip flops and lingerie. A household name the world over, Bundchen rivals soccer legend Pele for the status of Brazil's most internationally famous citizen, and her meteoric rise from a middle-class family in a small, rural town to superstar is the stuff of modeling legend. In a posting Wednesday on her Instagram account, Bundchen wrote, "Today after 20 years in the industry, it is a privilege to be doing my last fashion show by choice and yet still be working in other facets of the business." "I am grateful that at 14, I was given the opportunity to start this journey," she wrote. In an interview broadcast on the Globo television network Wednesday, she compared her life to a cup of water filled to the brim. "If your cup is full, how are you going to put more into it?" she said in Por-

tuguese. "I'm emptying my cup so I can put more things into it." Bundchen made her final catwalk appearance during Sao Paulo Fashion Week for Colcci, the Brazilian streetwear label she has represented since 2005. She made three appearances, opening the show in an A-line dress in white lace and lacey, knee-high black boots and closing it in a sundress with a full skirt in ivory and salmon stripes. For the final bow, a bevy of models emerged in jeans and T-shirts printed with Bundchen's image, and Bundchen herself wove her way through the pack, sporting painted-on jeans and a top depicting her in a yoga pose. Fighting back tears, she flashed her trademark broad smile and a thumbs-up. In an interview earlier this week with the newspaper Estado de S. Paulo, Bundchen was quoted as saying she wanted her last runway experience to be in her native Brazil, "where it all started." She was born and raised along with five sisters, including a fraternal twin, in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, a center of German immigration to Brazil. Bundchen was discovered by a modeling agency at age 14 and she came in second place in a nationwide modeling contest, before moving to New

York to work the fashion runways there. By age 20, she'd become a fashion sensation, her freckled face and flowing dirty blond locks gracing the cover of top fashion magazines worldwide and her unique combination of legginess and curves causing a sensation during her runway appearances. Bundchen's success with her healthy good looks was heralded as marking the end of the sickly skinny and bedraggled "heroin chic" look that had dominated runways for years. Her romantic life was regularly splashed across gossip magazines, as she was romantically linked to a series of A-listers, from surfer Kelly Slater to actor Leonardo DiCaprio. In 2009, she married New England Patriots quarterback Brady. The couple has two children. Last year, she outearned Brady, netting an estimated $47 million on contracts, according to Forbes. The next highestearning models on the Forbes celebrity list, Doutzen Kroes of the Netherlands and fellow Brazilian Adriana Lima, earned $8 million each, according to the magazine.

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aylor Swift is known for making hit songs about his exes or her past relationships and a report surfaced recently saying that Calvin Harris, Swift's rumored boyfriend, begged her not to write a song about him in case they don't work out. According to a source of OK Magazine, the 31-year-old Harris did not like to be talked about just like Joe Jonas, Harry Styles, and John Mayer after dating Swift. The source told the publication that he confronted Swift about this issue as he does not only want to have a song written about Swift's unfortunate expe-

tion climbed a place to the top spot in the week ending April 12th, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The Furious 7 soundtrack has benefitted from the massive single ‘See You Again’ by Wiz Khalifa, which is also sitting atop the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart this week. The track, a tribute to the movie’s late star Paul Walker, plays over the movie’s end credits.

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The song sold 464,000 individual downloads last week, and that translates into 58,000 track equivalent album sales for the soundtrack, over 50% of its 111,000 sales total. It’s the fourth soundtrack to top the Billboard 200 in the past twelve months – the other’s being Frozen, Guardians of the Galaxy and the TV soundtrack to current smash series ‘Empire’.

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ames of Thrones broadcaster HBO has sent "take down" notices to Periscope, the livestreaming video app owned by Twitter, after users of the app broadcast episodes of the hit show on Sunday night. HBO also said Saturday's online leaks of four episodes had come from within a group that had received preview DVDs. Twitter maintains that the Periscope app complies with US copyright law. But HBO indirectly criticised the video streaming company. "In general, we feel developers should have tools which proactively prevent mass copyright infringement from occurring on their apps and not be solely reliant upon notifications," HBO said in a statement. Periscope's terms and conditions make it clear that users should respect intellectual property rights, but the app currently only reacts to copyright infringement allegations rather than trying to prevent them happening in the first place, HBO believes. The long-

awaited series five of Game of Thrones aired in the US on Sunday and in Europe on Monday. Copyright infringement has been a huge issue for HBO. Episodes of the first four series of Game of Thrones were illegally downloaded more than seven million times between 5 February and 6 April this year, according to piracy specialist Irdeto, as marketing for the new series ramped up. This was a 45% increase on the same period last year, the company said. But over the history of the series, illegal downloads had run into the "hundreds of millions", Ernesto Van der Sar, of the Torrentfreak news website, said. And the first episode of the new series had been downloaded up to five million times, he said. "In my view, Periscope is a non-issue [for Game of Thrones] because the show is already posted online at very high quality on several other services," he says. "But mobile live streaming could be more of an issue for live sporting events like football matches."

Sarah Hyland inspired by health issues

Zayn Malik Calvin Harris begs Taylor Swift to wed not to write a song about him girlfriend at ormer One Direction star Zayn Malik is reportedly set to marry his girlfriend Perrie Edwards at Disneyland Paris this June. The couple is known for its love of the magical theme park, reported the Daily Mirror. "Perrie is a huge Disney fan. So what better way for Zayn's family to support her and encourage her to press on with wedding plans, than reminding her of her favourite fairytale. The family are hell-bent on Perrie and Zayn having their own happy ever after," a source said. Malik, 22, quit boy band One Direction last month citing his desire to live as a "normal 22-yearold who is able to relax and have some private time out of the spotlight."

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Sarah Hyland decided to become an actress after being told she might ''never have a normal life'' due to her health issues.

he 'Modern Family' actress was diagnosed with kidney dysplasia - a condition that results in fluid-filled cysts because the organs fail to develop properly - as a baby, and was forced to undergo a transplant in 2012, but believes her health issues have made her stronger and more ambitious. The 24-year-old star explained: ''I was born with so many health issues that doctors told my mother I

would never have a normal life. And she said, 'You're right, she won't - but it won't be because of her health.' ''When my mother told me that story, it resonated with me: If I can't have an ordinary life, I might as well have an extraordinary one. If you set your mind to something, you'll achieve it. ''When you're feeling vulnerable, it can lead to doubt and second-guessing. It will steer you away from your goals and your

happiness. ''Once you have a goal, keep moving forward - even if you're taking baby steps.'' The blonde beauty feels grateful for everything she has achieved to date. She told the May issue of Seventeen magazine: ''I am happiest when I am doing something I love. And I love 'Modern Family' - it's the best job I've had in my 20 years as an actress. It didn't come easily or fast or free: It took me 14 years to land a gig like this.''

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rience with him in case it happens but he also told Swift she is too talented to be writing songs about exes. Harris reportedly thinks that Swift is very intellectual and things that she writes about should be with regard to positive things. The report adds that Swift is just demeaning herself about whining regarding her past relationships and writing mundane lyrics about boys who hurt her. Also, Harris did not like to be written about by another artist as his ex-girlfriend, Rita Ora, already did that when they broke up.

Pooja Mishra molested, accuses Sonakshi for conspiring

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n an FIR lodged at Ambamata police station in Udaipur, Bigg Boss season 5 contestant, Pooja Mishra accused assault and molestation by two unknown persons on Tuesday (April 14, 2015) night at a hotel, stated a report. The model said in her report that she couldn't recognize the persons, but Sonakshi Sinha, her mother Poonam Sinha, Isha Koppikar and Venu Gopal Dhoot conspired against her and had instigated these men. Further to reports, a case has been lodged under Section 354 of the IPC, said Gopal Singh Bhati, the DSP. Pooja, who was in the city to launch a calendar featuring her, had checked in at a hotel on Rani Road. "These people have been harassing and conspiring against me for the past 10 years and following me everywhere," she told the media.

According to the model, someone from the hotel "laced" something in her food on Tuesday night which made her dizzy. The actress said that since the AC in her room was not working, she wanted to check in to another room. In the morning, when she woke up, she realized that she was molested, she claimed. Instead of lodging a report immediately, the model left for the airport and later returned to the hotel. "The model also claimed that she was robbed of her cash and jewellery too. She alleged that they entered her room and not only molested her, but left with valuables," said Jitendra Aanchaliya, CI Ambamata police station. Earlier, Pooja had lodged a complaint at Pune against Timmy Narang, Isha Koppikar's husband, for molestation and harassment.

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Dimapur, april 16 (mExN): The 1st Along Memorial T20 Trophy got underway today with Abu Metha, General Secretary, NCA, inaugurating the tournament. In the inaugural match, the organisers, ISAH, defeated Victoria Cricket Club by 72 runs. Opting to bat first after winning the toss, ISAH put on 151 runs from the stipulated 20 overs. runs. In the run-chase, Victoria CC were bundled out for 79. ISAH’s Aosashi was declared man of the match for his 61 runs off the bat. In the second match, Wiskers set a target of 85 runs after being bowled out in just 15 overs. Irfan with 36 runs was the only batsman to offer any sort of resistance to the Flamingoz bowling attack. Flamingoz easily chased down the target as Ejosel and Hokaito – with 31 and 29 runs respectively – got their team safely across. Hokaito was awarded man of the match for his 29 runs and 1 wicket. April 17 Fixtures Brotherhood vs Extreme CC @9 AM Kohima Hornbills vs Bluestar @1 PM

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Wokha, april 16 (mExN): The 4th Inter-Departmental Badminton Championship is scheduled to be held from April 28 to 29. A press release from the District Sports Officer Wokha informed. Parliamentary Secretary Khriehu Liezietsu will be the chief guest for the opening ceremony. In this connection, the DSO Wokha has requested all the Heads of offices to ensure participation in the said championship. The press release further requested that a team list be submitted to the DSO latest by April 25.

Saina regains top spot in rankings

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NEW DElhi, april 16 (iaNS): India's Saina Nehwal has regained the women's singles World No.1 spot in the latest Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings released on Thursday. The Hyderabadi became No.1 for the first time exactly two weeks back. She dropped to No.2 position last week but once again overtook China's reigning Olympic champion Li Xuerui to retake the top spot. The 25-year-old has had a good 2015. She won the India Grand Prix Gold in January, India Open Superseries in March, and reached the All England Open final also last month. In the last tournament, she played -- Malaysia Open Superseries Premier -- Saina reached the semi-finals earlier this month. On the other hand, P.V. Sindhu, who has been out of action due to an injury, dropped three places to No.12. In men's singles rankings, Kidambi Srikanth has retained the No.4 spot while reigning Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap has risen a place to No.14 following his semi-final appearance at the Singapore Open Superseries. In women's doubles, Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa are ranked No.18. There are no Indian shuttlers in the top-25 of the men's and mixed doubles rankings.

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Inter-district Veteran Pacquiao responds back at Football Tournament Mayweather's ‘reckless’ jabs

Veteran Players from Mokokchung (yellow jersey) and Wokha (Blue jersey) in the semi-final match on April 16 at Imkongmeren Sports Complex Mokokchung. (Morung Photo)

Mokokchung to face Dimapur in final today Morung Express News Mokokchung| April 16

Host Mokokchung will take on defending champions Dimapur in the final of the 6th Inter-District Veteran Football Tournament to be held on April 17. Both teams registered victories in their respective semifinal matches on Thursday. In the first semi-final, host Mokokchung defeated Wokha 2-0. The first half remained goalless until Akangtemsu broke the deadlock in the 45th min-

ute scoring through a free kick much to the delight of the cheering home crowd. Hobemo then added a second goal in the 57th minute. In the second semi-final match between Dimapur and Tuensang, the defending champions were quick to get on the score sheet with Lima opening his account in the 6th minute. The second goal came in the 12th minute via a header from Oinam Jet. Tuensang held on and two minutes later, Bumat Thupong Chang scored to make it 2-1. The defending champions were under pressure after conceding the goal, but when Lima scored his second and his

side’s third in the 29th minute, the Dimapur side could heave a sigh of relief. The second half saw a weary Tuensang team being held as the veterans from Dimapur defended strongly. Dimapur went on to get its fourth goal with Sanjit finding the back of the net in the 51st minute. The third place will be played between Wokha and Tuensang on April 17 at 7:00 AM. The final match between Mokokchung and Dimapur will kick off at 10:30 AM after a brief closing ceremony. Bendanglila, ADC & Administrator, Mokokchung Municipal Council will grace the closing ceremony as Chief Guest.

Barca beats PSG in CL quarterfinal

pariS, april 16 (ap): Lionel Messi set up Neymar's opener and Luis Suarez scored twice with fine solo runs to give Barcelona a 3-1 victory against a struggling Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday that left the four-time champion with one foot in the Champions League semifinals. After Neymar slotted home in the 18th minute, Suarez ducked and weaved through the Paris defense, putting the ball through the legs of David Luiz, for his first goal in the 67th. He ghosted past the PSG defender again 12 minutes later to score his second. PSG pulled a goal back in the 82nd when Gregory van der Wiel's longrange effort deflected off Barcelona's Jeremy Mathieu. Suspensions and injuries fatally weakened Paris in a demanding quarterfinal first-leg match. In attack, missed chances and sloppy control from Edinson Cavani made the absence of suspended striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic keenly felt. Barcelona's opener started with Sergio Busquets dispossessing 20-year-old Rabiot. After a looping pass to Messi who then

set off at speed toward the backpedalling PSG defense and scythed through it with a neat pass to Neymar. The Brazil international made no mistake, with a right-footed shot past Salvatore Sirigu. Paris squandered chances, with Cavani missing a sitter in the 28th minute. After a Barcelona corner, Matuidi broke at pace down the left and fed Ezequiel Lavezzi. The zippy Argentine checked, throwing off his marker, and found Cavani in acres of space alone in the middle. However, the Uruguayan's goalscoring instincts deserted him, with poor control and hesitation allowing defender Javier Mascherano to slide in. At the other end, another Uruguayan striker, Suarez, gave a textbook demonstration of how it's done, exploiting a PSG defense weakened by an injury after just 20 minutes to Thiago Silva, who motioned that he needed to come off. That forced him to bring Luiz off the bench, even though the Brazil defender had barely recovered from a hamstring injury. Luiz struggled against Suarez's pace and guile.

loS aNGElES, april 16 (ap): Manny Pacquiao intends to put on a show when he faces Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2 1/2 weeks. He really hopes Mayweather is also coming to fight, for the fans' sake — and maybe for his own strategic purposes as well. Pacquiao radiated confidence and excitement Wednesday at the Wild Card gym in Hollywood before his latest workout in preparation for their bout May 2 in Las Vegas. With the most anticipated fight in recent years looming ever closer, both boxers kept their public comments civil and mostly respectful this week. But Pacquiao laughed when told that the defenseminded Mayweather had called him "a very reckless fighter" on Tuesday. "Reckless fighter? That's how people like me and love me, because they like an exciting fight," Pacquiao said. "We call this boxing, (and) boxing is more punching. We talk about punching." Pacquiao (57-5-2, 38 KOs) has rarely skimped on excitement during his remarkable career as an eight-division champion, but the Filipino congressman realizes he is facing the greatest defensive fighter of their era. Mayweather (47-0, 26 KOs) has been nearly unhittable for most of his opponents during his perfect career. But Pacquiao hopes Money realizes that the best way to get paid is to put on a fight worth seeing. After all, they're counting on fans to pay a record $99.95 for the

Manny Pacquiao, of the Philippines, raises his arms after his workout in front of reporters and photographers Wednesday, April 15, 2015, in Los Angeles. Pacquiao is scheduled to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a welterweight boxing match in Las Vegas on May 2. (AP Photo)

pay-per-view, a figure described by no less than Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum as "ostentatious consumerism" if a fan bought it to watch all by himself. And if Pacquiao is trying a bit of psychological trickery, it isn't very subtle: He didn't even try to hide the fact that a brawl would be his best chance to win. "If he (does) that, that's good for me," Pacquiao said. "I like that. We'll see. That's what I want, and that's definitely what the fans want — action." Unlike Mayweather, Pacquiao knows what it's like to be knocked out and to get back up. Pacquiao lost both of his bouts in 2012 and ended his fourth fight with Juan Manuel Marquez face-down on the canvas in the sixth round. Pacquiao took time off af-

ter that bout, but returned to the ring and won three more fights before Mayweather finally agreed to get in the ring with him, five years after fans first called for the matchup. Yet the former knockout machine hasn't stopped an opponent since November 2009, when he finished Miguel Cotto in arguably the greatest performance of his career. This fight has captured the full attention of Pacquiao, who has found time to actually study film of Mayweather during his chaotic life among his entourage, his large family and his congressional duties. Pacquiao confirmed his eagerness to make the fight happen, pointing out that he agreed to every term proposed by Mayweather over the past several years of intermittent negotia-

tions. Pacquiao also agreed to a 60-40 split of the proceeds. "If my concern is myself alone, I don't (think of) the fans," Pacquiao said. "Then the fight, it's hard to make happen. Because of course, I don't want to take 60-40, a disadvantage and everything. I agreed with that for the sake of the fans. I agreed to make the fight happen." Pacquiao also said he felt a virtual duty to make a possible nine-figure payday resulting from this bout to further his charitable work in the Philippines, where he plans to give away a significant portion of his cut. "I cannot see them being hungry and not helping them," Pacquiao said. "I'm not materialistic. ... I have to use it for the glory of the Lord, and also for my family and for helping people."

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‘PHARMA JAN SAMADHAN’ launched on 12th March, 2015:

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